It takes a REAL man to drive a lavender and purple semi.

I was waken up around 6am by the Park Ranger and had to be out of thr north rim by 7. The roads were packed with snow, and the sun the day before melted the snow and overnight it hardened to ice. My sunfire was up to the challenge. Downhill with ice wasn't as easy as uphill with just snow, but I only managed to get her sideways two times. I was off to the south rim 200 hundred miles away through the desert.

I was out of the park and into the Kaibab national forest for the sunrise. I passed a fire tower and had to see if I could climb it. I was able to, but wasn't allowed to get inside at the top. It was many stories high, and the wind was incredible. The sunrise was amazing, but the wind on the small landing made it awkward and scary.

There was so much desert between the north and south rim. I was so bored seeing the same cliffs. A had to take a tiny excursion to see DINOSAUR tracks of course.

If they weren't filled with water they would have been really hard to make out. Can you beleive they still have definition after so long?

I love when cellphone towers are camouflaged.

This tower kind f stood out as it was about a hundred miles between any other pines. The cliffs just kept coming, and the road changed directions so many times to see the same cliffs.

I challenged myself to give the Grand Canyon a try. Of course they are beautiful. With all the hype, I expected more. The view wasn't that wonderful, the pictures turned out to have contrast and color, but what I was seeing in person was a transparent beige over everything. The sky and canyon blended into one gray color. It was spectacular to see people come to the rim to take four pictures, with out looking at the canyon except through their camera, then leave 30 seconds later. Compared to the light and colors of Zion National Park I wasn't impressed, but even I gazed at the 10 mile across hole in the ground for over ten minutes.

You have to drive a lot to get to any vistas of the canyon, pines and brush cover the rim and lookouts were cul-de-sacs away from the main road. Along the road were any of these stacks of pine branches. I don't know what purpose they had, but they were interesting. I bet no one elese even noticed them everyone is so in awe at not being in awe at the canyon.

I came from the back entrance and that view was by far the best. This is the grand view area. I did see a California Condor though. They are amazingly large.

As I got out of the Grand Canyon the scenery flattened and added different types of hills every so often. Hills that just looked like bunches or rock piles, and Juniper as far as the eye can see.



Whatever the plants were along the roadside were blooming. They were a magnificent green and yellow with white fluffy seeds.

The Mojave desert was littered with trailers, campers, and junk.

Joshua trees were a pleasant change, cactus were hunkered to the soil.

There were a lot of people for being the desert, but they had their own really large landfill.

The valley floor had endless trailers and small homes glistening in the sun.

The highway to the Hoover Dam had construction of a bypass so that commercial trucks could travel to Las Vegas easier and have a shorter route. The evening sun created a pink movie on the cliffs behind me.

The Hoover Dam was a pretty amazing structure. I always thought it just looked engineered, but it had a lot of art deco architecture and details.

The road leading to the dam has so many hairpin turns and is too narrow for trucks, and I bet the threat of having possible things that could damage the dam kept them away as well. Cops were stationed before the river was vsible to spot check for I don't know what. They jut glanced.

I bet if you were willing to get arrested this would be the best hill for a sled. Its such a gentle slide and you would ram into the river. I bet the current would take you under, but man would it be fun.

The towers you see on the main structure...are bathrooms. The women's bathroom had an art deco green interior and golden doors. The men's had black.

A very art deco sculpture was horribly placed beside the dam. It looked like it had just been pooped out there.

Once it was dark I had to leave the dam. I passed Boulder City (the original namesake of the dam) and once I got over a hill there they were. The power that was made from the dam went to a street light every ten feet over the entire Las Vegas metro area. It was amazing, like those christmas light for bushes that you just lay over the top of to create a grid of lights.

I bet this sign has changed so much over the years. Graffiti, bulbs on fire.

The older Las Vegas casinos showed their age compared to the new gaudy touristy ones.

Before they were just pretty lights on a regular looking building.

The newer ones were themed with Paris, New York, Greece, the space needle, they looked like Disneyland theme parks.

I can't imagine how many homes the dam was supposed to power compared to how many it actually does now. This city is either the dream or nightmare of a person with ADD. If you're prone to seizures, you'd better not drive through yourself.

Chippendale's, Carrot Top, Celen Dion, that magician guy, and others, strip shows. There is so much to do here but if you don't know exactly what you came for you would have no idea what to do. The city really stressed me out, the drivers are dicks, there are so many people everywhere, I had no idea where to go or what to do.

Why they didn't make this castle larger I don't understand.

I miss everyone. I so much closer to my destination than I realize. I wish you could all be seeing what I'm seeing. I'd trade this trip for what I had lost back home in a heartbeat.

"Love, Liquor, Ammo, Guns, Beer. Welcome to Zion. Oh, we have Gas too."

Arches was the epitome of Utah's landscape. But it was crowded and was kind of hyped us so much that it was a let down.


The road to Zion was still petty scenic, yet similar to what I've seen so far.


Not even knowing there was such a park, I had no idea what to expect until I got there. Everyone knows that I love trees, and all the pines, and the Cottonwood that have just turned the most beautiful Golden Yellow, were a great change for me.

The patriarchs peaks were great shapes and a nice allusion to what was next. The roads must have been paved with local rocks because they were the same red stone color as the canyons. They blended really well into the landscape instead or ruining it.

The rocky and rounded peaks together were great.

Oh the sky was so blue, and what clouds were in the sky were puffy white.

The morning sun was hazey on some mountains but others were in full sunlight and blazed their scenery.

These canyon walls were so close to one another. They felt at ease with each other and the people below them.



Look at Zion Canyon. Just look.

Wow, the light.

The light in this park is amazing no matter what time of day. I was there all day and it never lost a beat.

Cottonwoods were golden. They felt like home to me. The woodlands on the edge of the river captured and filtered the light so well.

Every glance was a change in scenery. The amazing and sad part is that I lost daylight and was unable to go on quote "mot amazing trail in any national park" in Zion.

When the sun was hitting me I was dreadfully overheated, and in the shade I was so cold. The cactus and pines were such a weird pair.

When sandstone weathers it is SAND again. The rocks were covered in sand and hung over thousand foot cliffs. Chains in the walls at some points made it feel a lot safer crossing.

Just look at that light!

And as soon as Zion Canyon arose from the desert it was gone again. Everything flattened out and got more red.

I was on my way to the Grand Canyon's North Rim. I have never been on love with the Grand Canyon's scenery even on film or photo. I was so close so I thought I'd try and take a look to change my mind.

The Kaibab National Forest was north of the rim and I had to go through it to get to the canyon. First I saw a log pile. NO trees in sight anywhere, just a log pile.

Then I came upon them. Arizona right? Beautiful snow covered Ponderosa Pines. Almost nothing but them too. A layer of grass and thick pines all along the rolling hills and peaks.


And what a beautiful change, sad, but necessary. I take it that they had birned at least one or two seasons ago. The grass was yellowed from a season of growing but I didnt make out any saplings growing between the snags. Every so often an Aspen showed up burnt, originally whitish, when the burnt bark peeled away, WHITE WHITE WHITE. Such beautiful wood.

It was so long getting from Zion to the north rim. The forest never seemed to stop, then all of a sudden there were meadows. They got larger and larger until the entrance to the park.

The sunset between the trees kept getting more spectacular.

By the time I got into the park it was pitch black. Snow covered roads, and no cars gave me a weird feeling, but I kept on.

When I got to the Grand Canyon Lodge, I knew something was up damn it. No cars, not even at the cabins, stores or lots. I walked around and saw CLOSED FOR THE WINTER signs. Nov. 30th 7:00 (no specified am or pm) was when everyone had to be out of the park. Wonderful, as it was 11p.m. Nov 29th when I got there. My car was shitting out on me since I had been driving forever in the desert all day long so I had to sleep in the parking lot and was going to wake up, take some pics of the rim and see if I thought it was beautiful or not, then leave before 7pm. Well no. A wonderfully helpful Park Ranger flashed his light through my window while I was sleeping that night. I thought I was dreaming of someone taking a picture of my car in the parking lot. I was instructed to get out of the park before 7am or I was to be ticketed for illegal camping. Groggily I got my car started and headed out for the damn south rim before I got to see the sunrise.