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Just a another ho-hum day in the magical Monument Valley, which is in the southeastern corner of Utah near the Four Corners.

UTAH'S NATIONAL PARKS: A primer

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Like visits to 5 different planets

This state is extraordinary. Here is where I really fell in love with desert. It's a love that endures.
There are five national parks strung out along the southern tier of Utah and a visit to each is like a visit to five different planets. Honestly unbelievable scenery.
After a few days at the Grand Canyon, I traveled northeast into Utah though the amazing Monument Valley, stopped in Mexican Hat for a “swinging steak” then explored two national parks in the state’s east, Arches and and Canyonlands.
I then took a detour farther east in Colorado, but doubled back and explored the other three parks, Capitol Reef in the state’s south-central section and Bryce Canyon and Zion in its southwest, as well as traveling down The Grand Escalante (or The Great Staircase, "steps" climbing from the Grand Canyon up to the Rocky Mountains). It was a wild trip in the last region actually mapped out in the United States by cartographers. The Bureau of Land Management website says the Escalante is “beyond human comprehension.”
Met some great folks here, made a major truck repair and saw wonders that amaze me years later.
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