Home of the Salt Lake City, Mormons and 3.5% beer!
We had seen pictures of the red rock arches and Bryce Canyon's rocky spires, but what we didn't realize is between every scenic spot are more scenic spots; Utah should be one giant park!
The constant freezing weather, thawing suns rays, and powerful winds have eroded the red rock into fragile arches, spires and balancing rocky piles; a photographers paradise!
The Arches park was truly impressive, a land so harsh even the rocks looked liked they had given into the heat, melting like wax over the ages.
At night we froze in the wagon, the sun would set around 4:30 pm and the mercury would drop to -12F, making cooking, dressing or going to the bathroom a race against the cold.
We had all the blankets on the bed and we still had to sleep fully dressed wearing beanies; the inside of the car frosted like a morning lawn.
As we crossed moon scape like plains, into rocky crevasses our jaws dropped and dropped again; simply the most spectacular scenery we had seen in America!
Once we picked our jaws back up, we were in Zion National park, but this most famous of parks is just a piece of the amazing landscape, no more or less amazing than any other scenery we had seen; its all awesome!
The days were getting too short to enjoy, the sun always seemed to be setting, casting cold shadows on our road-side camping.
We took over 1400 photos in four days, everything was dramatic, epic and generally awe inspiring.
Capital Reef was an amazing slice of sculpture, some of the crazy hills and spicky rocks reminded us exactly of Baja California.
After a particularly cold day we met a vegan man who was biking from Maine to San Francisco.
So after the East Coast he was living off baby food and chips, we saw him chewing on a tomato, it had frozen in his bike bag.
It was finally time to go home, too cold, not practical any more. But we owed my NZ mate Tim one more destination he had lusted after, Las Vegas, or sin city.