It's funny, Zion N.P. gets over 3 million visitors a year making it one of the most visited parks in the national park system, but for some reason you never seem to hear about it or see the iconic images of it like you do for other famous parks. The Zion canyon area is stunning; a beautiful river valley lined on both sides by HUGE red, orange, pink, and white walls of sandstone. We took the shuttle bus up to the end of the line and did a small jaunt up "the Narro...

The final leg of our journey back to Cali started bright and early on Monday morning. We bid the Simcocks adieu and pulled out of Longmont headed Southwest. We took Jeff's advice and stopped on our way out of Colorado to take a quick jaunt up to the gorgeous Hanging Lake, before crossing into Utah and the red desert. We got to Arches in time to take a quick hike up to watch the sunset on the backside of Double Arch. Gorgeous! In addition, to the Arches the park h...