I like to think that I have aged gracefully into my 27th year of life, that I have waded through the ebbing tides of change and come out a well adjusted individual. But I've noticed that making friends is not as easy as it once was. Whether that's because work gets in the way, or that many of us are at different life stages, or simply because my previous statement of aging gracefully is a lie and I'm already an old curmudgeon. But this last week I had the pleasure of reuniting with an old/new friend who had some time to kill and was willing to spend 12 hours in a truck with me. It was a trip filled with adventures and laughter and new experiences, we watched out for sand packers, snipes and even spent some time Butch Cassidy's personal hot tub.
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| A run down of the trip. |
A good road trip is supposed to be scenic, luckily most of southern Utah is scenic so it was no difficult task to make a solid plan. On this route we were able to see Goblin Valley, Capitol Reef, scenic route 12 to Escalante, Lower Calf Creek Falls, Bryce Canyon, a good stretch of state road 89 that I had never driven before and finally a quick stop at a hot spring on the way back. All in all I would say the trip was a success.
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| Goblin Valley, an alien landscape. |
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| Goblin sighting. |
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| "That rock looks like an airplane! I'm gonna fly it." -B |
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| A cave with a view. |
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| That's a lot of green for a desert. |
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| An expert hiker in her element. |
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| Lower Calf Creek Falls, as discovered by Henry Calf... maybe. |
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| Dear Clif Bar Company, please sponsor my adventures. |
