The Road to Zion

Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:12 PM

Heading to my own personal idea of heaven for the weekend, which coincidentally IS named Zion. And it's a century old this year!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_national_park
http://www.nps.gov/zion

Super excited! It's my favourite place on earth to go (not that I've been everywhere on earth). Not only is it gorgeous, it's one of the best managed national parks in the whole United States, in that they've got this world class extra convenient shuttle system that can take you to all the trailheads. You just park your car at your hotel and hop on, no fuss, no fighting the other tourists for parking spaces, just relaxation and recreation and rugged natural beauty in the backcountry for four days.

Utah's gotten a lot of rain this year, so it's going to be very green, lots of wildflowers, and this weekend is supposed to be in the 70s, sunny, just about perfect.

And it's a five hour car ride, which actually I'm looking forward to as well, because I plan to write like a crazed demon. (Got two pages of the new chapter so far, for anyone maybe looking for that update. <_<)

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