Bryce and Zion.

The most recent places that we have visited are Bryce and Zion National Parks. Both places where amazing. At Zion we went on a hike up to a place called Angel's Landing. It is this extremely narrow ridge with thousand foot drops on either side. One wrong step and it would end your life. That high

point in the middle of the picture (left) is Angel's Landing and the ridge leading up to it is the path that you take. Not exactly the least scary hike there, people have died on that trail.
The other park we went to, Bryce, had very interesting rock spires called hoodoos. They formed when a fin like rock formation coming out of the canyon wall started to get vertical cracks and over time freezing and thawing would erode away parts of the rocks leaving behind the hoodoos. A very peaceful place that is amazing.

Las Vegas

A big city with too many lights and casino's. End of story. I found out that there were a lot of old people going broke and screwing up there retirement, making sure that they work at Mc' Donald's for the rest of their lives. We did go to the Hoover Dam there and that was pretty cool. Learned a lot at that place.

Death Valley.

Sorry about the delay between posting but there hasn't been anything good to post about except Death Valley. The whole park is huge, a vast area of over 5,700 square miles, and it was fairly hot. The coolest thing we did there was probably going to the salt flats. A long time ago Death Valley was under water. When the ocean dried up it left a whole lot of salt behind creating the salt flats. Down there was the lowest point in America, Badwater. 282 feet below sea level. We also went on two bike rides, one being extremely easy and fun and one being very hard and fun. On the first bike ride we drove to the top of a very large mountain gaining 5,000 feet of elevation in the process. Then we rode down traveling about thirty miles an hour on average. The second was a 12 mile loop where the first hill we went on gained 1,000 feet of elevation, I liked this one better. Besides the bike rides, Death Valley is one of the coolest places we have been to. Some of the rocks were literally purple and blue.

After Death Valley we drove to Las Vegas. We're still there too.

The Grand Canyon.

Two days ago we visited the Grand Canyon. I'm sure that all of you know what it is but I guarantee you that you don't know what it looks like. It wasn't just a big crevice in the ground, and wasn't just a big cliff at the edge. There where many rock formations in the middle of the canyon and many ridges that separated the side canyons from each other. We went on a 5 mile hike that gave a great perspective of the canyon. Alright, Iv'e kept you waiting long enough, here are the pictures. Scratch that, I don't have pictures yet, will post them tomorrow.

Red Rocks

Our last visit was to Sedona, a place where all the rocks were red. Being there took your breath away and I don't say that lightly. I was in the presence of a natural phenomenon. See for yourself. Tomorrow we go to the Grand Canyon. I'll have to decide which was better.

Flat tire!

About 100 miles ago we experienced some technical difficulties. A flat tire occured on our left rear tire holding up our travel trailer, not really ideal when you plan to go around 280 miles. So my dad bought a kit for fixing tires that had some really gross black stuff that looked like liquid rubber. And so the tire was fixed and we kept driving happily ever after.

Bungee jumping!!!!

After White Sands we went to Tombstone, Arizona, a place where the wild west kind of originated. It was a cheesy tourist town where the only thing I enjoyed was going to a shop where they sell stuff made of snake skin, it was really cool. The other thing that I enjoyed was going to a comedy gun fight. That sums up that town. Then we traveled to Tuscon, the home of the saguaro cactus. Each one of the green looking sticks out there is a saguaro cactus. It the picture below if I were to stand up next to the cactus I wouldn't even come up to the first branch.

Last night we went to the Pima County Fair were I went bungee jumping and rode on an Asian Elephant. It was really fun!