We are both so eager to get to the strip..and the hotel!!! With it being Pauls first visit but my second visit I was interested to see how much of it I recognised, as it happens, quite a lot being that I barely saw day time. Checking in on a Sunday, everywhere, as you can imagine, was rammed! not once did I imagine this to be chill out time but it was crazy. Managing to get a room in the Skyrise tower of Circus Circus hotel on the north end of the strip was pe...

Canyon number 3!! We were slightly concerned that we wouldn't appreciate the Grand Canyon now we have already seen three beforehand, but we were thankfully wrong. The overwhelming volume of the canyon was unbelievable. After much umm'ing and arr'ing whether to drive there check it out ourselves or to do a tour we decided to drive in and save some money. We choose to see the canyon from the south rim, the more popular, commercial area and apparently with much bet...

Looking for a slightly more challenging hike we find one in the Zion National Park called Angels Landing, claimed to be one of the best trails in Utah. Seeing photos of this hike and also reading reviews I was freaking out prior to this ramble. Paul excited of course, me having too much pride I couldn't let him do this alone, how hard can it be?!! Luckily, most of the trail was shaded which helped a lot, temperature was in the early 30's so made it manageable....

Next stop we head into eastern Utah to the Arches National Park located just outside of Moab. First day, we take a ramble to see the Delicate Arch itself, just a short walk along the sandstone trail but again, mostly uphill, my thighs are hating me. Seems pretty tough and I feel so un fit, but I'll just blame the 30 degree heat. The sand stone Arch itself was pretty awesome to see. This trailhead is hugely popular so there where people everywhere photo bombing o...

This one's a bit of a gamble, our travelling technique seems to be the 'winging it' approach so we stumble across things, hope it's amazing and it seems to be working pretty well. Not really knowing what we were going to be seeing here, we again were pleasantly surprised with our first viewing of the Colorado red rocks. The monument- actually being in fairly large national park-is located right next to Grand Junction, featuring red sandstone canyons, a long win...