We were a little too excited about the idea of leaving South America and flying to the USA for one last week before home. After our first two month stint there, people would ask us about it and, after we told them we mostly went to National Parks, the standard response was "Oh, how good is Zion!" We quickly discovered that practically the only park we didn't get to was one of the best. When we arrived in LAX at midnight, we hired a car and drove straight there th...

From Grand Junction we were headed towards The Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks. This leg of the road trip took us through Arches National Park and a few other towns with great hosts as usual. Arches National Park was a good, fun day of looking at rock formations and at the end of the day we were treated with a spectacular lightning storm in the distance. Lightning storms are a daily occurrence in Utah but this one was even more extreme than usual. When we ...