Some Catching Up to Do

Since May 24^th I have not had access to a computer. I would have liked to update this blog sooner, but I couldn’t. I will now catch you up quickly. I was out there for a long time. I covered about 3000 miles by car and saw sights that only few (millions) will ever see. Great trip. I can't wait to do it again. Here you go

Thursday, May 24^th:

• Drive to Colby, KS from Pittsburgh (about 1200 miles)
• Sleep 3 hours at rest stop
• Begin driving toward Denver

Friday, May 25^th:

• Stuck in traffic going towards Denver so I head for Boulder
• Stop at UC Boulder and run around campus
• Drive to Rocky Mountain National Park and stay at Timber Creek
• Make dinner and go to bed at like 7pm

Saturday, May 26^th:

• Wake up refreshed and rejuvenated at about 5:30am
• Lulu City hike: I see a mountain lion and bighorn sheep
• Return to camp and relax: Watch elk and moose
• Go to bed at like 9pm

Sunday, May 27^th:

• Wake up early and do big meadows hike-pleasant
  
• Depart Colorado for Moab, UT
  
• Arrive at Arches National Park in Moab at about 4:00
• Hang out in Arches until night fall
• Camp along Colorado Riverway Recreation Area

Monday, May 28^th:

• Wake up, run, get breakfast
• Start winding drive towards Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon
• Do some swimming aka bathing at Capitol Reef in a stream
• Arrive at Bryce and do some hiking
• Drive to Zion and set up camp for the night

Tuesday, May 29^th:

• Run and have nice breakfast
  
• Do nice hike in the Narrows- Long (20), wet hike through a slot canyon
• This took all day so I came back exhausted
• Found sketchy place to camp and went sleep

Wednesday, May 30^th:

• Drove to North Rim of the Grand Canyon Met some girls doing a similar road trip and hung out with them
  
• Watched sunset on Cape royal with a group of people
• Went to sleep in park campground illegally

Thursday, May 31^st:

• Woke up and ran down into canyon
• Met rim to rim hiker
• Left G canyon for flagstaff, Sedona, and Prescott
• Stopped in flagstaff at Northern Arizona University
• Took a quick shower in their aquatic center
• Stopped in Sedona and checked out the redrocks
• Got impatient so drove to bagdad and camped out

Friday, June 1^st:

• Arrive in bagdad and check in to house for the summer
• Move in and rest up
• Run at night on desert road
  

Saturday, June 2^nd:

• Do absolutely nothing and hang out
• Pretty boring here

I know this is just a basic outline of my trip. There are several stories that I will tell sometime but the best ones cannot be told, only seen. I saw some cool sites that a photograph just can't capture and words just can't describe. My advice is to take your own trips into the unknown and just enjoy it.