Author: Mike Pekrul

This time, we visited the northern district of Canyonlands NP. They call it Islands in the Sky, because it’s a long set of interconnected mesas looking down on all of the canyons. Like the Needles overlook I visited the other day, this area gives a birds eye view of the majority of the park. We…

We visited Arches National Park today. More red rocks. 😆 It looks like the same kind of red sandstone we’ve seen so many other places, but for some reason, the sandstone around here erodes into pits and tunnels that eventually turn into arches and natural bridges. Arches NP is pretty, but isn’t my favorite of…

We made it to Moab Utah yesterday. Two of the Big Five Utah national parks are in this area…. Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. Arches requires a timed ticket reservation to enter the park… and true to form, I neglected to make the reservations till the last minute so I was only able to get…

Yes, I know. I walk, I don’t hike. Well, today it all changed and I actually hiked. Bryce Canyon N.P. Yesterday, we stopped at an overlook, looking down into the canyon, a bird’s eye view of all of the hoodoos (the eroded rock spires that make this place famous). As we looked down, I could…

I made a stupid mistake today. We were visiting Bryce Canyon National Park, and had just arrived at the visitor center. Prime time, the place was packed, and vultures were circling the parking lot waiting for an open space. I had gone around once already, when a space right next to me opened up as…

Today we went way, way, out in the country to have… a “picnic”. Yea, let’s call it a picnic. In the great outdoors. In the northern reaches of Zion N.P., we finally found the place. No visible buildings as far as the eye could see, only the single road in, we hadn’t seen another vehicle…

Did you ever KNOW that someone was telling you something incorrect, but just couldn’t get them to agree?? When I looked online at the phone company website, I found the answer, but the service rep told us something else. I argued with her over the phone but she just kept insisting she was right. Well,…

The Big Five are the five destination National Parks spread across southern Utah. Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands. We’re visiting Zion National Park this week. Beautiful! We drove out to the northern part of Zion yesterday. Pretty drive and area, but not the canyon that Zion is known for. Today, we went…

Two days ago I was in shorts and walking around in the desert. This afternoon, I’m sitting by a fire shivering and getting snowed on. Again. 🤨 We’re visiting Kanab Utah. Very pretty countryside, I like it here. If I had just come straight here from home, I’d call this desert, but we’ve seen real…

We finished up our visit to the Grand Canyon over the weekend and headed off to our next adventure. Page Arizona. Yesterday was a very busy day. In the morning, I was finally able to cross off another bucket list item… Antelope Canyon. We visited Lower Antelope Canyon with Ken’s Tours. (You can’t go in…