Canyonland National Park

I keep wanting to call it Candyland haha.

With a funny name like Canyonland I didn’t expect a lot. Happily I expected wrong 😊. It’s gorgeous anywhere you look. Before you look at all the scenery, there were some young people next to us in tents and of course Zoe had to meet them and charm them.

Spectacular scenery
That’s a road, Schaffers Trail. No way !

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  1. Yes, you and Vic are definitely traversing a magical terrain!

    Years ago, when my marvelous middle daughter Julie moved out to Salt Lake City, we were all — her four sibs, us parents, other family and many friends — disappointed when she told us she and her husband never wanted to come back east. We couldn’t understand why until we all cycled out and traveled some of the roads she and her small family have gotten to know really well over the past quarter century.

    Like you, the colors and distances in Canyonlands blew me away, as did the land formations at Arches and where the “goblins” toam. Julie’s family have dirt bikes and motorbikes for roaming the desert areas. They hike and camp and rock climb all over, and canoe the lakes and ski the mountains. Soon after arriving, Julie told me that the landscape had redefined for her the meaning of the words “dark,” “star,” and “far.”

    Until I retired, she used to send me huge, colorful calendars for my office that I would marvel at, month by month — but used to think that they were “trick shots” with atmospheric conditions “just right” but not typical of everyday colors. Then I saw with my own eyes the land they had all fallen in love with. Some of the other-worldly vistas truly take your breath away!

    Thanks for taking us all along on your magical, mystical, high-altitude journey!

    Linda T.

    P.S. I’m back in Maryland now. Everything’s greener than green, in every shade imaginable:>)

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