aMAZE-ing part one

for years i've wanted to go to the maze and when there's a fall break and a chance to go...

i went...ain't it beautiful!luckily i have levi as a friend that is ready to go and a desert lover as i am... we headed out last wednesday night and slept on the side of the dirt road on the way to Hauns Flat ranger station

this random shell was near the road... it may look small in this picture but it was good sized and reminded me that i should have been reading the "monkey wrench gang" instead of the "marriage clinic." oh the things you do while in school! blah!

the dirt road got worse after the ranger station and needless to say it took us around 5.5 hrs to get to our campsite...i think top speed that day was a few minutes of 20 mph. even levi's monkey was holding on for dear life at times...

the switchbacks were crazy but look how happy levi is to be away from civilization... the pictures give no true show of how sketchy some of the 4-wheel driving was...i love the colors of the desert! i've decided to start collecting different colored sand from the desert and am going to make a bottle full of different colors, you know like the ones you used to make as a kid... i collected sand here... obviously...

yes there's fall colors in the desert finally got to canyonlands... only campin' and hikin' here...

then to the land of standing rocks... can you see the mother and daughter here? we finally got to see take a quick walk to see down into the maze...that was waiting for us to hike the next daya beautiful sunset painted the skyand our desert deficit was starting to be filled