A Grand Hike

July 13, 2001Written by Lynn Sessions

Friday, my brother David and my son Cory (and myself) all loaded up my Ford Explorer and headed south. We stayed overnight in Moab Utah before heading south the next morning to Blanding Utah. We then continued south and then west to Grand Gulch. It took us a while to find the right dirt road we needed to get to the trailhead but we finally found the correct trail with the use of my GPS.

From the trailhead, it was about a three-mile hike to the edge of Grand Gulch where we could look down and see Shaw Arch near the bottom.

It wasn’t a very interesting hike. I think Cory was especially bored but I considered it a ‘Grand’ hike.

And that was really the only goal for the entire trip. So we headed home again.

"As you journey through life, choose your destination well, but do not hurry there. You will arrive soon enough. Wander the back roads and forgotten paths, keeping your destination in your heart. Seek out new voices, strange sights, and ideas foreign to your own. Such things are riches for the soul. And if upon arrival, you find that your destination is not exactly as you had dreamed, do not be disappointed. Think of all you would have missed but for the journey there, and know that the true worth of your travels lies not in where you come to be at journey’s end, but in who you come to be along the way."