Taking the Scenic Route to Roadway Inn

Taking the scenic route is sometimes a euphemism for getting lost.  In this modern age of GPS such getting lost may have its origins in human or machine error, as it was for us.  I may expand on this blog post to explain just how we came to perambulate in a great many ways through the magnificent wilderness of southern Utah, circling and re-circling the splendid Colorado plateau.  I may even, if I dare, explain how we almost got the van stuck in a very large road tunnel / culvert in the White Canyon.  Perhaps then the Roadway Inn stay could be understood for all its complexity and symbolic importance.  But over some things perhaps it is best to draw a veil of partial forgetfulness.  By the time we were done driving this wilderness, only the Grand Canyon itself retained capacity to draw forth wonder. And our travels and travails arguably helped make that grand and splendid monument to erosion, water, and soft sedimentary deposits more comprehensible by building us up to it in stages.