Utah, Arizona & New Mexico
May 2006

nother wonderful trip began heading west across Colorado to just inside the Utah border at Moab, home to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. We toured them both in our new Toyota Tacoma truck and by taking short hikes. We also enjoying some great meals at Moab restaurants that Jacquie had researched on the Internet. We then went across Utah passing through Capitol Reef National Park and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to Zion National Park in the southwest part of the state. There we enjoyed touring the park using the park's trolley system.We attended a number of ranger talks and trekked through the scenery.

We next headed south to Flagstaff, Arizona, and toured the Indian ruins at Wupatki National Monument and the nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument along the way. A couple of days later we stopped at Meteor Crater as we traveled to Albuquerque to do some RV trailer shopping. All in all, it was a wonderful trip that refreshed us both.

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park from a distant view point using a long zoom lens

Jacquie at an overlook in Canyonlands National Park in Utah

The Three Penguins formation in Arches National Park

Petroglyphs in a residential area of Moab
(Note the Moab Man at the bottom left)

Our new Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck on its first road trip
(Scene is in Arches National Park)

Petroglyphs in Capitol Reef National Park in Utah

Jacquie at some Indian ruins in Wupatki National Monument in Arizona

A panoramic view of Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff, Arizona

Petroglyphs on a rock in Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico