Day 3 The third day I headed out to the Island In The Sky section of Canyonlands, which is where I had been intending to get to the previous day. It was a lot closer to Moab than the Needles section. I had done my long hike the previous day so this time I wanted to do a few shorter ones, like I had done at Arches. I got some suggestions from the helpful girl at the visitor's centre, which was quite busy, and I continued into the park. The first trail was an eas...

Day 1 In my first full day in Moab I drove just a few miles north of town to Arches National Park. There they have a collection of natural rock arches that have formed over many years through erosion... blah blah blah. During my day in the park I drove around it, stopping at several points to get out and do a little hike. That is because the place is so large it can be several miles between one point of interest and another. The first two hikes were less than a ...

Looks like the god of travelling still isn't done pulling my strings. I arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona around 7:30am. If you remember from my last entry I was supposed to get a much earlier bus, which would have arrived at 10:30pm the previous night and give me a nice sleep in my booked hotel room. That didn't happen. So I'm there at 7:30am and, of course, my bag isn't on the bus. It's most likely on the other bus which will arrive later. I thought that rather tha...