Blogs from Kanab, Utah, United States, North America - page 3

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” -Thucydides Four months ago I was sitting at my desk stressing about work, so I pulled up my bucket list Word doc and decided I needed to cross something off soon. I picked "Photographing the Wave." There is a very stringent set of rules about hiking the Wave though, put forth by the Bureau of Land Management, BLM. I got on their site and found this out. They have a lottery four months in advance, you put in the top three days you want and wait to see if you are picked. There are only 10 people picked for each day, currently they also give out 10 additional passes between 8:30-9am every morning. Dozens of people, evidently, line up for these passes. So I ... read more

Geo: 37.0475, -112.526We like Kanab. It's not as touted as Moab, nor as cute as Springdale, nor as dramatic as Lee's Ferry, but we love that it's surrounded by red. Red is big with me.Red walls, red canyons, red apples...The drive from Kanab to Sun Lakes is beautiful--our whole trip has gone through great country, but this route goes through the the mountains to Jacob Lake where you turn off to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then down, down, down past the Vermillion Cliffs on a national scenic route, Lee's Ferry, pass another turn off to the Grand Canyon, into Flagstaff and then really down, down, down into the valley of the sun and Phoenix.It was like coming home again.... read more