Moab, Utah’s Sin City
Of course, Utah’s definition of ‘sin city’ is very different than that of Nevada’s next door. In a bit of tongue-in-cheek they have taken Nevada’s saying of “what happens in […]
Category Archives: American Southwest
Canyonlands National Park: Island in the Sky & Mesa Arch
September 23. We admired Dead Horse Point in the (fairly) early morning light and then raced to Canyonlands, hoping to catch some more of that morning light. But at Aztec Butte […]
Dead Horse Point, Dying within Sight of Water (Utah)
September 23. Dead Horse Point gets its name from a horse that died within sight of water, unable to reach it. Enroute to the state park we passed two ship-shaped […]
Off the Beaten Path
In this day of the internet and bucket lists is there any place left in the world that can be described as ‘Off the Beaten Path’? Certainly back in the […]
Lower Antelope Canyon in Arizona
This week I’m looking every which way at Lower Antelope Canyon. Lower Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon whose sandstone walls have been eroded into curvilinear shapes by the rushing waters […]
Utah’s Highway 128, a Scenic Drive into the Desert Country of the Old West
At the Tourist Office in Moab the host told us that if she had an afternoon free (which we did), she would go on a scenic drive down Highway 128 all […]
On the Edge of a Ledge (Canyonlands National Park)
At the end of the road was the Grand View Point Overlook, and a guy was sitting there on the edge of an overhang. “That’s it,” yelled his wife, “don’t go any further!” […]
