Talking to my friend Jenifer late last year, I was a little surprised to hear that she had never been to any of the National Parks in Southern Utah. As an auditor she has traveled all over the US and internationally for most of her career. Her husband had visited Bryce Canyon several years ago and wanted her to see it so a plan was put together to have them both come out for a mini tour of some of the State and National Parks in our neck of the woods. From Michigan they flew into Grand Junction where our adventure started.

Although I had secured a timed-entry permit for Arches National Park many months before, the first day we decided that a visit to Dead Horse Point State Park and the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park would be less crowded and more accessible so that was where we headed for the first day, skipping Arches altogether.

We finished up with our first day by driving through Moab, Monticello, and Blanding; ending up in Bluff for the evening.