United States travel stories

Part 4 - Arches in the Afternoon - Hale Arches!

It is shortly after four in the afternoon as I turn TLTTC left off route 191 for one last look at Arches National Park. The sun is hiding behind a mountain of cumulus, so the much touted fiery af...

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Part 3 - On to Canyonlands

Hiking the Delicate Arch Trail was only one-and-a-half miles each way, three miles total. But that combined with a hot, unrelenting sun, a steep climb, and my own version of "rock clinging" and I w...

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Part 2 - Hiking the Delicate Arch Trail

The guidebook describes it as "moderately strenuous". I'd like to suggest that in merciless sun with ninety-plus degree heat (even though when I start it is still only 8:50 in the morning), it&...

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Part 1 - Early Morning in the Land of Red Rock

5:30 in the morning comes early, as it usually does, but the hour finds me stumbling into consciousness, prepared to make the most of my day in the canyon land of southeastern Utah, of which Moab i...

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Part 3 - The Colorado Plateau

I stop in Glenwood Springs and have a quick lunch sitting inside the truck. I am back on the road heading toward Grand Junction and the Utah border by half past noon. The landscape is broad, open...

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