Why I live in Utah after being born & raised in Hawaii:

On Feb 9, 2007, at 2:38 PM, joel walker wrote:

> Driver's roads ...continued ...
> ........................
>  -----  Utah 12  -----
>
> Bing-GO!! We're talking one of maybe THE ten greatest American roads.
> Understand about Utah:  it may be our most spectacular state.  Scenic
> glitter abounds in the remaining forty-nine states, some of it
> marvelous,
> but nowhere in our recollection is a state packed with more stellar
> sights and oh-wows than Utah.  Stirring is as stirring does, and Utah
> 12
> churned us like an atomic blender.  It stands almost unequaled as a
> road
> with something for everyone.  The early giant slalom fed, in no order
> we'd be able to verify in our later daze, into a canyon rip;
> a Virginia reel; a coastering slew through outsize range cattle
> and garishly golden aspens; a sensuous slither through an erogenous
> zone of rocks that loomed suggestively in the softening light; and .
> gad, don't breathe . a set of esses floating atop the teetery spine
> ........................
> <from Panguitch on U.S. 89, through Bryce Canyon National Park,
> Kodachrome Flats, Dixie National Forest, to Torrey near the northern
> end of Capitol Reef National Park>