Utah

We’re presently holed up in Laughlin, Nevada, visiting family and chilling for a week.  It’s a casino town on the Colorado river which is a good place to pop into if you want to learn how to play the table games at quarter speed.

But before we got here, and after we left the various parks in Wyoming/Montana, we got around Utah and it’s various interesting rocks.  This’ll be a bit photo-heavy, else I’d have to think of something interesting to write.  You have wiki for that.

Take that, donkey-car

Arches
We started off in Salt Lake City, having driven there from Wyoming the previous day. The first of the parks we hit was Arches, so named for it’s improbably-shaped rock formations of sandstone.
  
  
Capitol Reef
The following day we went to Capitol Reef park and the weather was all over the place, resulting in some seriously moody looking hills.  It was still 40° in new money, mind.
     
Bryce Canyon
Later on in the day, the weather made up it’s mind and lashed down. Challenge accepted.
  

Zion
The following day was our last day in Utah, so we had to make sure to go through Zion Canyon, as this was meant to be the more spectacular of the set.  All the greenery belies the fact that this is the middle of the desert.  It is rather stunning.
     
  
  

And then we were off.  That night’s hotel had a rather different vista:

Kurzfassung auf Deutsch: Wir sahen viele interessante Dinge in Utah und dann verloren wir unser Geld in Las Vegas.