Six-thousand years of erosion—give or take—and you get what has to be one of the most beautiful views in the world. What a wondrous planet.
Horseshoe Bend is amazing, and made even better by whoever is in charge of the place not limiting it by throwing up fences and sidewalks. It’s pretty awesome being able to walk right up to the edge of something like this. Seeing all of these people scrambling around the edge of this did make me wonder, though—so when I got home I did some googling and discovered that only one guy has gone over the edge on accident in the past fifteen years. Not bad. Chalk one up for personal responsibility.
I do things like this sometimes just to test whether or not I can make my palms sweat or my heartbeat pick up the pace. Nothing ever happens, and for years now (it first occurred to me in New Zealand twelve years ago) it’s made me seriously wonder if there is something missing in my blood, because let’s face it, that’s a big drop.
Sorry, but this place is tailor made for selfies.
24 Comments on “Horseshoe Bend”
It is gorgeous but your pictures made me dizzy! I will remember not to visit!
You guys shoudl do a raft trip. The kids would love it.. from Arches to lake Powell..4 or 5 days..camping, you can opt for a four man raft and do your own paddling. Great trip!! With a flight back in a small plan to your wheels.
Killer ‘stache.
Beautiful!!!
Pat’s beginning to look like a prepper.
Well, I do have enough water and food for three days, maybe four, so I expect I could survive pretty much anything. Have to eat the kids, though.
That looked amazing! Love the selfies, l spent my Honeymoon On Lake Powell in a really nice boat, the scenery is awesome and the water was so clean. Have fun, I’ll see you soon.
We’ve been thinking about renting a boat for a day. Maybe we’ll just have to pull the trigger and do it.
We would visit that place, but we would not get that close to the edge… I really like RB’s suggestion of rafting down the river and flying back, sounds like a fun four day journey. I did a similar trip, three days, down the Thompson river here in BC, Canada.
If you want to do some awesome boon docking try Valley of the Gods. It is easier to enter on the west side near the hotel. The east side entrance up past monument valley might be a little hard in your rig.
We’re already there. Entered on the East side and didn’t have any problems. Gorgeous. Definitely a top 3 for all-time boondocking spots.
my husband combs the garbage regularly and especially if i’ve been cleaning. i only throw away garbage. we obviously have different definitions of that word. 🙂
My family did a 5 day rafting trip through there a while back, camping on the banks each night. Awesome trip and your kids would love it too. You can actually hike over the top of the horseshoe, hard to tell from the view you are seeing.
Dizzying heights, I agree. I can barely handle looking down from my second floor apartment balcony! All kinds of weird bodily sensations! Hey Pat, where do you get that style of hat you’re wearing? I have been looking for that type, as opposed to the normal baseball caps, but haven’t been able to find any. Being the World Traveler that you are, I thought you might be able to “steer” me in the right direction. Feel free to drop me a personal email if you prefer. Thanks. Enjoy the rest of your journey.
Hat story:
First off, the hat is from this fancy retailer called TARGET. But the story isn’t about where it’s from. I used to have this exact hat back when we were on the boat a few years ago. One day it disappeared, and I assumed that it had blown overboard.
But the other day, Ali bought me this hat when she was in shopping with the kids. Cool, I thought, I liked that hat.
We had a rental car that day, so that night I ran out to Home Depot to get a couple things for the bus. Afterwards, instead of going to Auto Zone for oil like I had told her I was going to, I went next door to Best Buy to ogle the 15″ Macbook Pro that I’ve been craving for a while. Anyway, when I got home that night she asked if I got the oil and I just said, no. An hour later I said, “All right, I have to tell you, I went to Best Buy to look at computers instead of going to Auto Zone.” Not exactly a groundbreaking secret.
So then she says to me, “As long as we’re telling secrets, I have one for you. I threw your hat overboard. I was so mad one day when I went up into the cockpit and found your hat and magazine laying there for the millionth time, that I picked them up and threw them overboard.” She smiled at the memory.
And that is the story of the brown Target hat.
Not two days later Ouest spilled the beans that Mama had thrown my hat in the garbage. The Patagonia hat I was wearing just a few days ago had been tossed out instead of put in the wash like I had requested!
While other couples have secrets of infidelity, or financial problems, we have secrets that are so much deeper. Disappearing hats.
What a great story. 🙂
Nice. You’re so close.
“To put your life in danger from time to time breeds a certain saneness in dealing with trivialities”–Nevil Shute
Looking forward one day to seeing the same photo from the top of Half Dome in Yosemite. Best I could do was crawl out on my belly and hang my head over the edge.
Are you going up the moki-dugway in your rig? Theres a great view of the goosenecks from the top, but the turning radius may be tight.
We did the moki-dugway on our motorcycle. I still have finger nail prints on my back!
I love this site/blog so much. Pat and Ali, we’re so grateful you share with us. It really makes me happy to see such beauty. Thank you very much.
Guess I may as well confess, also.
I’ve been throwing your hats away too.
I’m so sorry,
Mark
Gorgeous places/photos! I appreciate my virtual trip with your family!
Thanks for this journey!
Margie