Wow, what a day! First of all, we didn't even definitively decide to come to Arches until the day before. That added an extra 8 hours of driving (4 hours there, 4 hours back). Did not seem so bad compared to the 8 hours straight of driving on Wednesday. Of course we had to drive that back home the following day, but we weren't concerned about that. So our crazy road trip within our road trip starts out very interesting.... I drove to and from Arches. I really ...

Over 1,700 miles driven. 2 National Parks in 2 days. 24 hours of driving. Things are definitely different in 2020. My next blog post was going to be from our adventures in Peru in October, but of course that is not happening. So much uncertainty and frightening things going on in our world right now. As frequent travelers, travel bans and quarantines have been quite difficult. Before I get into the summary of our trip, I do want to mention that we are beyond gr...

We were all quite lucky that we just happened to be lucky enough to plan and time our trip almost perfectly. I read that Zion National Park gets very busy, and in order to beat the crowds, and make it back to the resort in enough time to enjoy the hot tub, eat dinner, and get some decent sleep before leaving on Monday, I suggested we get to the park at 7am. That meant waking up a bit before 6am for the 45 minute drive there. Well, we didn't quite make it that ear...

We didn't get to St. George until midnight California time, which was actually 1am Utah time, so we didn't want to do anything too strenuous today. We didn't venture too far from our resort, but still got in a lot of sight-seeing. First of all, a very special thank you to my brother Tim, who gifted us three nights at this resort. We got to choose anywhere their resorts are, but we wanted it to be close enough to where we could drive, but far enough away to make ...

We wanted to see Monument Valley before we got our destination - Page, AZ - for the night, so we made the slight detour to do just that. We got some great pictures and after getting some info from the visitor's center, we decided to do the loop through Monument Valley in the Civic. Now, in our defense, the big sign said that sedans can make it through the loop with no problem. About 5 minutes into the drive down there, we realized this would not be possible. It ...