road trip: the national parks
hoodoo you think you're foolin'?
Notes from a Road Trip. June, 2021: 10 days, 5 parks
Bryce Canyon Lodge in time for dinner. Wilted salad, fresh-baked buttermilk biscuits. Twilight sky above the canyon a concave bowl of midnight blue. Mesquite burning in a distant firepit. The wind shrieks in delight. Tomorrow, Inspiration Point.
Sunrise over the canyon, the trails vast with promise. Hillside hoodoos: rock formations squinting in the sunlight like ghostly stalagmites. Five miles by 9 am, my breath dusty and hot. Maps and park passes, hiking boots and hydration packs shoved in the Escape’s backseat and I’m headed north up I-15. Montana awaits.
I am a newish subscriber and love this so far. Alas, your format is challenged by the awe and wonder of our National Parks. If I were king I would make it MANDATORY to take schoolchildren there as a prerequisite of graduation. We would change our outlook in a generation. Thanks for including photos since they are supposedly worth a thousand words each :)
While it is clearly bad form, if you are heading to Montana, my favorite Substack about its amazing presence is by Antonia Malchik "On the Commons". She writes about the power of walking and taking in what is around us amongst other things.
Finally rock formation puns in the subtitle...just great...this post is a butte
Love, love this and the photos are amazing!