I’m thrilled to share the first of an eight-part series I’m putting together of the month-long road trip I so recently embarked on with my husband. While on our trip, I journaled everyday so we could remember all of our big adventures like hiking along the edge of a cliff holding onto a chain that was nailed into the rock, to the smaller moments like when my eyes filled with tears as we first approached the Grand Canyon. But my words documenting those memories only tell half the story. These photos start to tell the other half. My hope is that they will always stir up the same emotions we felt then and will make us realize new ones every time we flip through them.
When people ask what my favorites parts of the trip were, I typically respond with “Oh I could never choose because this country is so vast and unique… but Bryce and Zion were out of this world…” This first series of photos were taken from the start of our trip in Telluride, CO as we passed into Utah and stayed in Bryce and Zion National Parks. It could have been that we were just setting out on the road that brought out all of our child-like excitement, or the fact that we’re used to climbing UP mountains, not DOWN into canyons, but I like to think that Bryce and Zion were truly two of the most remarkable places not just on the trip, but that we’ve both ever seen. Bryce with it’s canyon of creamsicle-colored hoodoo’s {tall rock spires thought by the Paiute Indians to be people who were turned to stone for bad deeds, but of course there’s a much more scientific explanation here} and Zion’s massive canyon appearing out of nowhere, nestled between walls that look like the waves of the sea that were once there. Whether we were above on ledges or at the bottom of the canyons looking up, every view, every corner we turned was breathtaking. It goes without saying that although it was our first time in these parks, it will not be our last…
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”
-Lyndon Baines Johnson {as seen on a plaque at Bryce National Park}
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