The San Rafael Swell

So today I had a bit of a break from traveling and studying, and with a short window of time my uncle graciously agreed to take my girlfriend and I out on the desert.  There is a place in the middle of Emery County Utah called "The Swell" or "The Wedge"  it is one of the most majestic and beautiful places in the world.  Pictures do not do it justice but some pictures will be posted later to this blog so you all can see the beauty of this place.

My girlfriend has never made it out to the southern part of Utah so I wanted to show her one of the places that will always hold my heart. It is a place that has a feeling, almost spiritual, of something beyond.  I have heard of metaphysical lecturers talk of a powerful place where auras blend and power radiates into our plane of existence.  I do not believe in the New Age mentality of auras or the strange crap like that but there is something about this place.

At the bottom of a nearby canyon there are petroglyphs and pictogyphs that show that the native people that used to inhabit this land felt something similar.  Of all the places in the world this is one of my favorites and a place that if you ever find yourself in need of a picturesque landscape should experience.