Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Better late than never, my gallery of pictures from our trip to the Southwest in October is now up. You can click here to see it or look at the list of galleries on the Photo Galleries page. – Dave

Zion National Park is probably one of the most scenic parks we’ve been to on this trip.  It’s not the largest park, but it has a huge variety of scenery, due to its range in elevation and lots of water.  The main part of the park is a 6-mile stretch of Zion Canyon, a massive […]

Here is the view from our tent at the campground just outside Zion NP, where we stayed 3 nights: Not too shabby! – Meredith

There is an overlook at Bryce Canyon NP named Sunset Point and a trail down into the canyon named Navajo Loop begins there. As we stood there at sunset taking a few pictures, we noticed a guy pushing a stroller up the trail. Here’s the long view of him on the trail. He’s roughly in […]

Bryce Canyon NP is a beautiful park that we did a decent job of visiting in 24 hours.  We got photos at sunset, sunrise, and a really fun 3-mile hike while we were there.  Here are some pictures: A broad shot of the Bryce Canyon "amphitheater" at sunrise.  Dave was really happy there were interesting […]

Here is the view from our tent at the campground at Bryce Canyon NP:   We only stayed one night, but it was the nicest setting for our tent so far. – Meredith

In Meredith’s last post, she mentioned how I got lucky and obtained a permit to hike in Coyote Buttes North to go see The Wave. I guess I didn’t realize how lucky I was until I spoke with a few people who had been turned down. There was the guy who walked into the BLM […]

There’s a place on the Utah/Arizona border called Coyote Buttes that is a natural wonder and a very productive spot for photographers.  The site is protected and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.  They allow just 20 visitors per day.  Half the visitors reserve their spot months in advance online, and the other half […]

Here is the view from our tent at the campground in Monument Valley, UT: Of course, if you read the last post, you’ll know that we didn’t actually sleep in the tent that night, so the view would have been the same background with a tent that looked as if it would blow away any […]

We stayed overnight at Monument Valley.  There’s only one place to stay right now – it’s like a small town, with a lodge, a restaurant, a gas station, a grocery and general store, and a campground. It was quite breezy and dusty while we were touring Monument Valley, and we got to our camp site […]