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Highlights of My 2007 Sabbatical: Utah
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Alaska and Yukon Highlights
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We love dramatic
scenery! So on the way back to
Massachusetts from Alaska, we lingered
in Utah to further explore
some areas we'd visited in 2003. |
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First up was Arches National Park, near
Moab, Utah, which features thousands of
natural sandstone arches, more than any
other place on earth, amid desolate high
desert landscapes. At left is
Arches at sunset and below, two of the
dozens of arches that we hiked to.
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Second, we just had to
re-experience the dizzying Moki Dugway,
a section of Utah Highway 261 that takes
drivers up a sheer 1,100-foot cliff in a
series of steep gravel
switchbacks. From the bottom, it
is impossible to see where the road
goes. We looked up again in
awe: "There's a road up over that?!"
At right, how it looks from the top. |
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After that wild drive,
we ventured into the nearby Valley of
the Gods, full of red rock formations
eroded into fantastic shapes, like the
one at the left. We had the
17-mile dirt road, treacherous with
rocky gullies, all to ourselves as we
uneasily watched a thunderstorm crash in
closer and closer to us. |
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Overall, our 2007 trip gave us
the following interesting "firsts," in addition to
those mentioned on the
Alaska/Yukon page:
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Wildfire burning on
hillsides, a helicopter fighting it and an
impromptu camp for hundreds of
firefighters
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Sightings of caribou, whales,
puffins and sea otters
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The patience-testing
"pilot car" system of blocking,
then guiding motorists through construction
on two-lane roads
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Big-city downtown shut
down for a vice-presidential motorcade
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Mountaintop wind farm
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Plug-ins at most parking
lot spaces in Fairbanks so cars don't freeze
in below-zero weather
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Free on-demand ferries in
Yukon
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An isolated Alaskan town
of around a dozen residents that had no
phone service but had electricity and
high-speed Internet
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aspects of the sabbatical.
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