Been pretty busy seeing and doing things for the last week. Nothing superblogable so I'm just putting a quick summary in now of the places visited. Canyonlands National Park - we stayed in an area with a rocky formation which was very conjucive to scrambling and climbing. Sat on the rocks and watched a storm - played around with group photos - the video of which I must get and post on Facebook. Got up early and went and sat on the top of the rocks and...

People who know me well and some who don't know me so well will know that I have a very low tolerance threshold for stupidity. I'd just like to recount a tale of abject stupidity that I was privy to on Friday morning, it involved the fearless DJ Q. I came down with the flu on Thursday night so I opted out of Friday morning's early hike (which from all accounts involved some awesome scrambling :(). Being sick I wouldn't have had much fun out in the heat....

had an epiphany this afternoon, I've been in mainland USA for 11 days based on what I've seen in this time I now understand why most American's don't own passports. Based in Moab we had an early start today (5am) and took off to the Arches NP. The area is semi desert - much the same climate as Aggeneys, where I lived in South Africa, but my guess it would be geologically a lot younger. The park is famous for its many large and spectacular rock arches, as ...

Drinking in Utah Last night Kevin, Wendy and I went out in Moab to explore and have a few drinks. The majority of Utah's population is Mormon and with this influence on the legislature they have a number of laws in accordance with their beliefs which make it difficult to drink.The first bar we went into (only one of the two in Moab) we proceeded up to the bar and sat on the padded saw horses that they had for bar stools. A bar maid came up to us and asked if we ...