10-10-17  Just back from a two week tour of the SW U.S. National Parks including Zion, Bryce, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands and Escalante.  The Colorado Plateau has endless sandstone formations and mesas.  Wonderful and totally different country.  I have spent a lot of time around the Grand Canyon but had never seem these parks in Utah until now. Met a New Zealand family and a group of young Swiss at a Bed and Breakfast in Panguitch, Utah.  Lots of nice folks out there ………