Arches National Park - Moab, UT

It's safe to say that I've never been to a place quite like Moab. On the same trip that Christian and I hiked down into the Black Canyon, we did us some Moab. Arches National Park is just north of the town and actually had some scenes from The Incredible Hulk with Eric Bana (not Edward Norton). But you're not here to ready about The Incredible Hulk, you're here to read about me and my crazy adventures.

The great thing about this trip was that I learned you can drink roughly two liters of water and still be dehydrated at the end of the day. Moab is a high elevation desert, so the air is thinner and the heat was that of...well, a desert. The real shocking thing is that it was so dry and hot, that you didn't sweat at all, the second any perspiration hit your skin it was wicked back into the air.

CRW (aka Christian Roberts Wing) and I camped out along the Colorado River, where I learned the term "missile drop." A quick one night camp with some delicious backpacker meals and we were passed out. You know, those meals are actually really really good, and the desserts were really really desserty.

We were shuttled to the top of the Gemini Bridges Trail with our rental bikes and were among all the other tourists taking the beautiful scenery in. I fondly remember my brother and I laughing at some shmoe erratically riding his bike across one of the twin bridges. We definitely weren't expecting the length of the ride, but sections of that trail looked like how I would expect the surface of Mars to look like. It was awesome.