The travel book for Utah makes the state look really great. After our drive through it, we can say with some confidence that they really have to pick and choose. Seeing a massive dry lake covered in salt that gleams white like a baking skull is interesting, but I wouldn't call it welcoming. Arches National Park and our drive north on 128 to get back to the freeway made up for it. 128 is basically a canyon drive between the Colorado river and massive red walls. I can't really describe what it feels like to be so tiny against these cliffs, except that it again felt a little like we were in the Lord of the Rings.
I admit that I'm a tree person, but the rocks in Arches are really something serious. When you look at a rock and can see the lines that wind and sand and water have carved in it and take a second to realize that this has been in formation since before the wheel, it kind of sucks the air out of your lungs. Aside from the snarky, rude foreign tourists (nationalities not disclosed so as not to sully relations) we ran into at the park, it really felt like we could have been wandering around about a million years ago...except that this would have all been covered in water and swamps then...but let's not split hairs.
We have so many pictures of everything. It's hard to pick. But here are some goodies.
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