Today is July 20th, 2020. My name is Luc.
If you have been following us on Instagram or read my first diary about this road trip, then you know my wife and I have been on this road trip that I can only refer to as a road trip of a lifetime.
It’s 11:30 in the morning. We’re currently in a small town in Utah called “Moab”.
How we got here?
If you have not read my first diary, please do it before reading more. It’ll explain how the road trip got started and go into more detail about the first couple of weeks of our travel.
In the last diary, I wrote this: “Now, we’re thinking about going to Las Vegas for a week (in two weeks), then drive to Utah to visit 2 more national parks”.
I wrote this on June 29th. Since then our plans have changed multiple times.
As of three days ago (Friday morning), our plan was to drive from LA, (through Death Valley national park) to Las Vegas, and spend the night there.
Then we were gonna spend one night in Zion National park, then one night in the Grand Canyon, then spend the week in Bryce Canyon National park.
When we woke up on Saturday morning, we realized a big part of Zion National Park was closed because of Covid-19. So, we improvised.
On Saturday, we drove through Zion National park (and made a few stops) to get to the Grand Canyon around 5pm. We spent a couple of hours in the Grand Canyon (and took some amazing pics), then we drove 5 hours to a town near Bryce Canyon national park.
On Sunday, we drove to and through Bryce Canyon, then we visited Capitol Reef, on our way to Moab, where we are today.
To recap, in less than three days, we drove about 1900km, and visited/stopped by 5 national parks.
Where we’re going next?
For now, we’re in Moab, Utah for the next 5 days at least.
Then our plan is to start slowly making our way back to Virginia with a few stops along the way.
After Moab, as of today (July 20th), the plan is to go to Colorado and visit two or three national parks there. But as you have seen this road trip is flexible. #StayTuned, we’ll keep posted on where we go/are next. 🙂
P.S.:
Even before this road trip is over, Valva is already thinking about the next (possible) one.
On Saturday morning, she comes to me and says:
“Hey baby. I was thinking, when we get home, we could spend maybe two weeks at home and maybe drive up the east coast all the way up to Maine. We could visit some of the national parks on the east coast. What do you think?”
I’m guessing we’re driving up to Maine at some point when we get back to Virginia…