The drive there took about 2 hours and I don't have any photos of that because there was nothing on the way there. Literally nothing. It was even more desolate than the drive from Corona to Las Vegas. At least that trip does have Barstow...as depressing as it is. I would like to note, however, that within 5 minutes of entering Utah I spotted a traditional Mormon polygamist female. I felt like I was on safari spotting some strange creature. I'd only HEARD of these types of people but had never actually encountered one. Nothing much to report though; she was only exiting the gas station and got in a pickup truck.
Zion is very tourist friendly. The place was pretty packed for a cool cloudy day with rain in the forecast. Most of the tourists were also foreign. Of course we had the Japanese but I also heard a few Swedes in the group. One of our first stops was Court of the Patriarchs. A difficult task to achieve as a photographer in heavily photographed areas is to get an interesting shot. It requires climbing into areas the other folks don't venture off to. So I left the path and climbed up the hillside a bit to get a different perspective.
Here I was squatting at the edge of the river praying I would not fall in. If I had fallen in I would not have been surprised. Kind of a clutz.
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