Utah’s Red Rock Canyons

[fa:p:a=6-11-red-canyons,id=543068905,j=l,s=s,l=i]We left early from Tanner’s place to make our drive down through Utah’s famous red rock canyons. So far this has been my favorite part of the trip. These things are amazing to look at. Pictures hardly do it justice. there are three places we went through. Starting with the simply named “Red Canyon“, which you can simply drive through. We also went and visited Bryce Canyon, which ended up being a $25 visit. I wish we had had more time to spend there, because I would have loved to do a hike in the canyon.
 
[fa:p:a=6-11-red-canyons,id=542967258,j=r,s=s,l=p]Lastly, we went to Zion. The drive into the base of Zion was really cool. They have a 1 mile tunnel carved right in the side of the mountain that leads to a switchbacked decent down the side of a mountain. We had planned on spending the night at one of the campgrounds in Zion, but it was close to 100 degrees, and neither of us wanted to spend half the day out in that sweltering heat. So we chickened out and went for a hotel. A quite nice place that looked brand new and had some great views. I spend some time down in the pool and trying to get an internet connection so that I could post up pictures and these blogs. With no success, so I’m keeping these in a word file for now.