Dear Steemit friends

It is time for new travel story from my side!
After busy weeks I found few hours of free time this morning before heading to work and I wrote second part of my Travel story from recent USA trip.

You can find my first part on the link below:
https://steemit.com/travelfeed/@crazy-andy/my-travel-story-usa-zion-np-bryce-np-part-1

In first story I shared our third day of the travel (first two was in Vegas and I returned to Vegas later on the trip and will share Vegas time on day 7), now I am sharing our fourth day of travel.

That will be my fourth travel story, but definitely not the last. I am trying to honor all my followers and supporters with travel story every time I achieve some milestone. This story is coming on my 204th day on Steemit, so I am 4 days late, but I hope you will anyway enjoy reading and looking it 😃

I was inspired by @travelfeed to write travel stories at first time. They are doing an amazing job and I am sure that there is a bright future ahead of this project.

I would also like to thank to all my followers. Especially huge thanks to my main supporters @sirsensei @cyclamen @noperope @penticton @gaja @feri1 @kid4life. I would also like to expose work of @czechglobalhosts which project - 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge hosts some of the best photos on Steemit, and also a huge thanks to Tomas for his support.
Enough for foreword lets go down to business 😄

After early morning wake up, we headed to the car and hit the road because we had a long day ahead of us, with drive from Bryce all the way to Moab with stop in Goblin valley State park and sunset hike to Delicate Arch.

Driving on Utah Scenic Byway 12 was such a pleasure. Oh my God, this is the nicest road I had ever driven on. So many beautiful views! You are getting high up on almost 3000 meters altitude. There was really almost no traffic when we were driving. It was the first time when I wished that the drive from point A to point B would be longer.

When this beautiful road ends you come to Capitol Reef national park which also offers spectacular views and amazing rock formations. For us from my country, this kind of surface, vegetation and whole geology as state of Utah has is especially interesting as you can’t find it anywhere near our country.
Another beautiful thing and must stop on the way is Fruita campground. Even if you are not camping make sure at least you stop by to stretch your legs and get your stomach one delicious homemade pie which they offer there. You won’t regret it!

Our next stop was Goblin Valley State Park. This was my first visit of this park and I have to tell you that I really had a nice time and had a lot of fun jumping from this funny mushroom-shaped rock pinnacles. It was interesting for me that you can touch (even climb or whatever you want) this hoodoos.
We were there about an hour and it was a well planned stop on our whole day 270 miles long journey.

And finally we arrived to Moab. This time I did some research where to eat in Moab and we had a great late lunch at Moab Brewery (the dinner menu is even better). Whole city is so nice to walk around and the temperature at that time of the year was actually quite pleasing.

After dropping our bags at our accommodation Super 8 Motel Moab, we continued to the last part of this day, which was Arches National park. This is top 3 of USA national parks I had visited in my opinion. I love the hike to Delicate Arch, but park has so much more to offer…
We began with Park Avenue Viewpoint and were impressed at the very beginning. I am sure that you will see why when you will take a look at the photos below.
Next stop for this day and the last before final point was Balanced rock. This is a short trail where you walk around rock formation and just looking when Balanced rock will not be so balanced anymore 😆
After a short drive we came to Wolfe Ranch and we were there soon enough to get the parking place for our car. Make sure that you are there early enough, because as I know there is always a problem getting the space.
I was really looking forward to this hike, as I had it in my memory (I was there also in 2014) as an extraordinary nice one. The path to the Arch itself offers and amazing views and experience. It is quite a tough hike as well, but we manage it in less than 45 minutes. After first photos and first WOWs we took the time there. Just laid back, chilled ate some snacks and waited for the sunset. After sunset you can just say, wow what a great end of this magnificent day.

After getting to the motel we really just fell into the beds and that was the end of our fourth day of travel in USA. There is much more coming. When I reach 750 followers I will try to post a new travel story for all my followers.
I hope you enjoyed reading this one, all of your comments are very welcomed as always. Have a great start of the week and enjoy your life!

All photos in my posts are @originalworks and were taken with my own equipment.

@crazy-andy