On our way to St. George, we passed through northwestern New Mexico stopping at El Malpais and Inscription Rock National Monuments. El Malpais was molten volcanic basalt, (miles and miles of it,) that had bubbled up in seemingly strange piles of rock and then stopped, forever. Inscription Rock was just that, with a pool of water that attracted travelers for thousands of years. They each added their own grafitti to it, telling many stories. In Marble Canyon, Arizona, we came across what I had been looking for for a long time, desert wildflowers at their peak. It was mile after mile of a garden in full bloom. I had not known how mountainous this corner of Utah is. Red rock mesas stick up at rather odd angles everywhere. Nearby is Zion National Park. We have a
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