Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

After leaving Page and Antelope Canyon, I had only left myself two days to visit the Grand Canyon, and both were working days, so I'd need to be online for a large proportion of the time. After driving around so many National Parks of the South West though, I didn't think that the Grand Canyon would be any better than the others.

Turns out I was wrong.

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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA

After leaving Zion National Park (see Southwest USA - Part One) in the morning, I drove for only a couple of hours before reaching Bryce Canyon in time to find a commercial campground, fitted out with shower - necessary after my two days of hiking. Unbeknownst to me, Bryce was actually higher in elevation than Zion, and as I was checking in a woman saw my glee at the (very few) snowflakes dropping and asked whether I was from California, on account of having never seen snow.

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Zion National Park, Utah, USA

In April of 2017 I spent two weeks in a campervan working and travelling across the deserts of Utah and Arizona in the USA. I was inspired by my mum's memories of her roadtrip around the area in the late 1970s, and wanted to see - and explore - the landscape for myself. My first stop was Zion National Park, Utah, and it was beautiful and humbling and vast beyond expectation.

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