had an epiphany this afternoon, I've been in mainland USA for 11 days based on what I've seen in this time I now understand why most American's don't own passports. Based in Moab we had an early start today (5am) and took off to the Arches NP. The area is semi desert - much the same climate as Aggeneys, where I lived in South Africa, but my guess it would be geologically a lot younger. The park is famous for its many large and spectacular rock arches, as ...

Drinking in Utah Last night Kevin, Wendy and I went out in Moab to explore and have a few drinks. The majority of Utah's population is Mormon and with this influence on the legislature they have a number of laws in accordance with their beliefs which make it difficult to drink.The first bar we went into (only one of the two in Moab) we proceeded up to the bar and sat on the padded saw horses that they had for bar stools. A bar maid came up to us and asked if we ...

Firstly a few facts about Yellowstone. It was America's and the worlds first national park officially set side in 1872. A large portion of the park is with in the caldera of an active 'super volcano. The earth's crust in the area is extremely thin which results in a lot of sisemic activity (2500 earthquakes per year) as its located on the boarders of two tectonic plates and also its famous geysers. Basically if it erupted it would wipe out mo...

Yesterday was a l-o-n-g day of driving. We only got to the Crater's of the Moon NP at 8:30 in the evening (addmittedly we lost and hour changing from WDT to Mountain time. The stars last night were magic and I managed to convince a few others to sleep out with me, the shooting stars we saw was well worth it. For the last two night's I've slept under the stars as its bloody hot, I couldn't be bothered setting up a tent as I don't have a partner to ...

Yesterday afternoon I had another first, my first Dairy Queen. We all went in and had 'Blizzards' which which is basically thick ice cream with appropriate flavoring served in a cup. As a gimmick the cashiers turn them upside down too show how thick they are, we all tried it a few times but it still felt weird holding a cup up by a spoon and no top. As usual in America the smallest one was a bit too big for me to eat it all, hell there advertising a 64oz soda o...