I wonder why the red rocks in Southern Utah shed off in arches? There's a cliff along the freeway that will be the new Arch Rock in a few hundred more years.
The desert smells so fabulously when it rains. All of the brush is resinous and the rain falling must move it all around releasing the aroma.
I think I'd like to try skydiving once. It looks relatively safe, and I'd love to experience earth from above with all that silence.
I always marvel at the fortitude of those people who just packed up when asked to by Brigham Young and moved away from the relatively settled area around Salt Lake City and traveled south to the hot, red wasteland of southern Utah.
On Saturday, Click and Clack from Car Talk (on PBS radio) were marveling over a caller who said she lived in the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania where it was 4000 feet above sea level. When she first said that it was 4000 feet, I remember thinking "Hmmm...not that high." And then the Tapit Brothers went into conniptions over her living waaaay up there!!! I realized that coming from the West, I have a different outlook on altitude. Most of the U.S. lives below 4000 feet, so I guess that seems high. However, as all we Rocky Mountain natives know...4000 feet is the foothills.
The Wasatch Mountains are really spectacular. Really. They impress me every time I see them. Awesome, truly lovely to behold.
When I'm the driver, I don't have trouble keeping awake. But as the passenger....zzzzzzzz.
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