We've spent the last few days cruising around Utah and visited Zion (where we climbed a very high mountain with cliff face drops - Elizabeth spent most of the climb shaking and clinging on to me or anything else nearby), Bryce Canyon (where the scenery and rock formations, hoodoos were incredible - like nothing I've seen before) and Salt Lake City (where we were educated by local evangelical Mormons on the history and merits of being part of their faith - polygamy among other things being one I suppose). After eating far too much at an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet we then drove to one of the islands on the Salt Lake where there are free-roaming bison, antelopes and other animals that we spotted whilst exploring. The views over the lake and of the mountains were incredible.
Today we've left the deserts of Utah and drove into the Rockies where things are very diiferent. There's snow, the temperature is very cool and everything is either moose or bear themed. We really are in bear country - there are warning signs everywhere and we heard a guy talking in the local Stetson shop about how he had came across a bear a couple of days ago that had charged towards him and he'd had to shoot it several times to stop it in it's tracks. It was shortly after hearing this that I suggested we at least buy a knife to take into the park tomorrow but Elizabeth won't let me (apparently it would just aggravate a bear further rather than do any damage).
Anyway, tomorrow we're heading into Yellowstone and I'm really looking forward to it as it's somewhere I've always wanted to explore and supposed to be one of the greatest national parks in the world! We might even see a grizzly - let's hope we don't need a knife!!
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