It sits on a huge desert plain, as calm and collected as a man looking off into the distance with his eyes closed. These 88 square miles of the state of Utah have been set aside as Arches National Park.
The flat terrain allows you views of rock arches of all shapes and sizes, scattered about in clumps, near and far, like families standing in an open field. Vegetation is sparse, as though the surface of the land is just recovering from a recent cleaning. The heat slows you down, forces you to conserve your efforts. When you do decide to speak, the wind blows your voice away from you, into the open sky.
Grown-ups allow the silence to put them into a reverent mood. Kids also play quietly here, rarely noticing anything higher than eye level.
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