Calamus

Four Corners, in Utah  is a unique one a kind place in the US. Its the only place in the entire country where four states - Utah, Colorado, Arizona & New Mexico - meet at a single point. I had never heard of it before. I came across this place while doing the research on places to visit in Utah. The day after visiting the Arches National Park in Moab, we decided to go to the Four Corners. The lonely stretch of never ending state highway There it is!  It was a hassle free but long drive through the desolate arid desserts of Utah. We loved it simply because it was nothing like Washington, which is lush green all year round. Though there is nothing wrong with that, it tends to get a little boring after a while, a change of scenery is always welcome. The stark contrast was probably why we were able to not only absolutely enjoy but also appreciate the scenery of scattered dry grass and bald red rock structures in the deserted highways of Utah & Arizona. The lonely state highw

So much has already been said and written about the Grand Canyon that there really is nothing more or new that I could add to.  The very purpose of our entire 11-day trip was to visit THE GRAND CANYON(even though I would very much love to refer to The Canyon in block letters every time, I am going to resist the temptation - with great effort - in the rest of the write up). The plan was to end the trip with a visit to The Grand Canyon - a perfectly befitting grand finale(although it was not planned so on purpose). After some research we had concluded that we wanted to visit the South Rim of the Grand Canyon since it had all the world famous and most spectacular views points and also North Rim was closed towards the end of Fall & through Winter(:p). Most people that visit The Grand Canyon National Park stay at Williams, Flagstaff or at the resort with in the National Park. We stayed at Flagstaff - a 90 mile drive from the park. To our amazement, on the way to the Canyon was the Be