Why don't we have this in Europe!!

After Vegas we needed a break from alcohol-fuelled lifestyle and headed to visit some of America's most gorgeous natural wonders. So on Friday we drove to Utah to see the Zion national park. I did not see much on the way as I slept the entire 3,5h drive there. We ended up getting a motel room near the park, for only $40, which is a positive drop from the over $60 rooms in California. The next morning we woke up early and headed to Zion, since we were driving the admission fee was $25 per vehicle. Totally worth the money after seeing the beauty of it.

 Hiking time

 Oh deer!

After a long day of hiking and driving we decided to try out alternative accommodation and ended up setting up a tent in a camping site in a place called Page about halfway between Zion and Grand Canyon. Turns out camping isn't exactly the American way to do it as there was only one other couple camping out in a tent while everyone else had their flashy RVs. At first I was excited about the idea of camping as we had brand new sleeping bags and other camping stuff we had bought from Walmart, there was even free wifi in our tent!Electronic outlets and what not. As one can imagine, the sleeping experience wasn't for my personal taste as it got freezing outside and I had a youth sleeping bag (thought i was being smart and saving money), which I couldn't even fit in so I eventually ended sleeping in the car (which was also freezing). After a shit night's sleep we headed to Antelope Canyon only a 10-minute drive from the camp site. This place is owned by the Navajo people of Arizona so we were lucky enough to have a young native American tour guide educating us on the interesting stories about this AMAZING place. This cost $26 per person but was by far the most mind-blowing thing we have seen so far.

 How can this even exist!

One of Antelope's thousands of crazy walls

After Antelope we made a quick stop at the Horseshoe bend in the Colorado River as we had seen a picture of it in a local brochure. This place is free to visit and again, blows your mind. It's literally next to a highway, yet easy to miss if you're not reading the sign on the side of the road. 

Big horseshoe. i mean, HUGE. (notice the tiny white dots on the bottom of it, they're tents)

Back on the road again, we now started racing the sun to the Grand Canyon. We barely made it as it was about 5mins to sunset when we finally got there. After driving in the national park we stopped at the very first view point called the Desert View, and it sucked. Maybe due to the position of the sun, we just couldn't see much so we drove a bit further to the next view point (Grand view point), which fortunately did not disappoint. 

Grand Canyon was grand.

After it got really dark we left the park to go find a place to sleep in. We drove about 2h to a town called Flagstaff where we again ended up getting a motel room. We had planned to spend the entire next day on the road as our next destination was Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thank goodness we saw a sign on the side of the highway pointing to a meteor crater. Curious what this place would be, we took a turn and discovered the coolest thing in the world. At first we assumed it would be just a shitty hole on the ground, probably the size of a house maybe. But no, it was a gigantic hole on the ground created by a meteor from outer space 50,000 years ago. I'm not that into space stuff but the tour we got was SOO INTERESTING!

Alien landing?

After this unexpected space lesson we continued our way to Santa Fe, which was 5h away. That night we also had our first couch surfing experience at cool people's house in Santa Fe. And these cool people happened to have 2 puppies, which made this experience priceless. So today we drove from Santa Fe to Roswell, the alien capital of America. We are now reporting from a motel room in Roswell.  Will get back to you soon. Roger.