Its been awhile since I have done and update but I took a beautiful trip This week. My roommate Dave and I traveled to Phoenix and took a side trip through Moab and below are some of the pictures. For them all click on them and it will take you to my photo bucket.
These pictures were from the first portion of the park. We had left Denver at midnight and driven all through the night. We took I 70 through the mountains and had a beautiful full moon to guide us through the night. As the Sun rose we pulled off I 70 onto a two lane road heading south to Moab. Dave had told me how beautiful this place was but I hadn't really comprehended how huge it was. We turned into the national park and I was amazed by all these features everywhere. This park was massive. We both got out at the first location which which is the first picture. There is a massive valley which the Sun was just beginning to creep into you. The valley had a natural trail built into it and Dave and I walked down it for a good distance. It was hard to stop because it just got more and more beautiful as we went into this valley which opened into another huge valley filled with these jutting formations. I took hundreds of pictures in this valley and will upload more to photo bucket later.
As we moved on we found why it was called Arches national park. Everywhere we looked there were huge natural arches. We again got out of the car and decided to explore. Some of the below pictures are of us standing in these huge arches. The bottom three pictures are my very favorites. We couldnt resist having fun with that last one.
This one is a view standing in one of the arches and looking into the distance.
We finally made it back safe though on the way home there is more story which I will post later.
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