Speed Update

Ok, I found out I don't really have any time to blog...so here is a highlighted update of my trip.

After Zion National Park we backpacked in Yosemite National Park for 3 days. It was awesome. I got to climb up half dome...it was really a climb because of the fact the support cables were "down" and it was like climbing a rope over a 500 ft wall on a 75 degree angle. Well worth the challenge though....got a great view of the park from the "diving board."

From Yosemite we went to San Francisco for the day...really cool city. I would put New Orleans and San Francisco as the 2 coolest cities (no particular order) we've been to so far. In San Francisco we did a boat tour under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz...2 really interesting landmarks. On the boat tour we also saw a ton of windsurfers and kitesurfers...made me jealous to say the least. What really made San Fran interesting was all of the street performers and street artists creating art right in front of your very eyes.


We left San Fran and headed up the coast on the historic Route 1 on our way to Redwoods National Park. Route 1 is famous for the views, but it must also be famous for cross-country bike rides because we must have seen at least a dozen bike riders doing some type of long distance trip. The Redwoods were really, really tall and big, which made them cool to explore in what seemed like a Jurassic Park setting (they actually shot part of the movie there).

After seeing the Redwoods we made our way to Yellowstone National Park. We made 2 overnight stops in Bend, OR (a really chill, little town) and Boise, ID. We then spent 4 days in Yellowstone National Park...and you really need 4 days to see it. We drove over 400 miles in the park alone going to the various tourist attractions and viewing animals. The coolest parts of the park were Mammoth Falls and the tons of animals we saw. We saw at about 7 black bears, 3 grizzlies, 2 wolves, 1 antelope, 1 moose, 1 coyote, 1 big horn sheep, and hundreds of elk and bison.

We left Yellowstone and spent a night backpacking in the Grand Tetons...a really beautiful place. We got rained on for the first time while camping...so that made for an adventurous and wet trip. The view from the Tetons and the view of the Tetons is amazing and def something you have to do if you are going to Yellowstone. We left the Tetons and spent the night in Logan, UT and then headed to Moab, UT.

I am currently in Moab (a cool place) where we ate dinner at the Moab Brewery and are heading to Arches National Park tomorrow. Ok, if you want more detail....check out Nat's blog. Only a week or so left on our trip!