by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
A number of factors caused my wife and I to recently take a rather (for us) sudden trip to Utah. We usually spend more time planning for an upcoming trip, but both of us felt the need to “get away” for a few weeks. Our house was becoming somewhat of a weight on our...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The name “Capitol Reef” is kind of misnomer. I first thought that it might be some kind of ancient primeval coral reef that had been exposed due to erosion, but I was wrong. It turns out that there is a relation to the ancient sea, but only in the sense that the rock...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The good times continued in and around our next stop, Bryce National Park. This park contains one of this country’s most spectacular geologic sights, the Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument (more on this below). We’d been hearing and reading about a...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The last leg of our trip takes us to Big Water, Utah. This town is near Page, Arizona, which is home base for all things that are Antelope Canyon. And this was our primary target! As I mentioned previously, Antelope Canyon is on Navajo land, which means the Indians...
