southern utah | Bedelia

I recently checked another item off my Utah bucket list: Bryce Canyon National Park.

Earlier that week I injured my ankle, so my first stop was the visitor’s center to buy a walking stick.

Emily was a wonderful hiking companion. She even helped me limp down the hills! We were hot and dusty so this walking stick picture is the closest we came to a hiking selfie, haha

However, we didn’t let that keep us from seeing all the sites. Mostly we got to know the hoodoos. Also known as tent rocks, fairy chimneys, or earth pyramids. Whatever you call them they were lovely to look at.

The park even has a little shuttle that takes you to a couple different outlook points. We saw Inspiration Point, Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, and Bryce Point.

We ended the day with a short hike to a waterfall. The hardest part of the hike was finding the entrance! It was hidden outside of the regular park entrance on the side of the road.

It was a great way to spend the day. I hope to go back and explore it more one day.

Currently: Catching up on Project Runway and trying get to know the new designers.

If the ever present drizzle of rain didn’t do it, the two school zones that suddenly popped up in my morning commute this week were more than enough to help me realize summer is winding down. So before the season’s officially gone I thought I would write a little about my trip to Moab [Southern Utah]. I went with some friends a few months back [May? No, April I think, okay maybe this was technically a spring time trip, roll with it]. Call it a throwback thursday if you will.

I’ll keep my commentary pretty simple, but if you would like to feel inspired about the beauty of earth and majesty of nature here is some music to serenade you as you flip through the rest of this post.

Moab, in case you are unfamiliar, is a land of red rock,

Blue skies,

and Arches.

This is probably the most famous and recognizable Arch: Delicate Arch.

At the top of the hike to delicate arch [minus Sean, who was acting as photographer].

Landscape Arch.

Moab is also home to purple flowers and twisted trees.

In addition to hiking trails, Moab has jeeping paths you can go on. At first you may feel like this about jeeping:

Careful reenactment of our initial reaction to the first steep hills in the jeep. Before you laugh you should understand that sometimes it looks like you are going to fall into the earth. Directly. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

But you’ll get over it and have a good time [and maybe admit to being over dramatic? no! never!]. Possibly even make jeeping friends.

Some fellow jeeps out and about, in primary colors, no less.

Jeep trail. Not the super steep part, obviously. One of the nice things about jeeping is we were able to bring a cooler with us and have a picnic lunch. This was all very picturesque until the wind picked up and made everything a mess, haha.

But mostly Moab is just more red rock and blue skies and that was plenty enough for me.