In his 1968 book, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey offers a beatiful description, prophetic at times, of the beatiful red rocks, mesas and vast stretches of desert that mark the landscape of Southeastern Utah. After spending the first half of the trip exploring Zion and Bryce canyons, (both located in the western part of the state),…

  5 days, 5 parks, 1 sweatshirt. Perhaps I should have checked the weather more closely before I left. Heading out to the great Southwest, the plan was to spend 5 nights/6 days exploring as much of Utah's National Parks as we could in the short amount of time we had alotted for ourselves. I…