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Its the summer before they go off to college so 

they have to do something big and make it 

memorable. Abbie and Rebecca decide that they 

are going to take a road trip across the US to 

explore all of the natural beauty of America and  

get away from civilization. They pack up 

everything and put it in their Jeep Wrangler, 

ready for their adventure.

They start out their road trip by going to Cedar 

Island, which is around 5 hours away from 

Mooresville. When they get to Cedar Island they 

come across a small brochure stands so they 

take a few brochures to look at before they 

explore Cedar Island.

The brochure says “Cedar Island is around 

11,000 acres of irregularly-flooded, brackish 

marsh. The main marsh plants include black 

needlerush and saltmarsh cordgrass. The 

woodland areas are dominated by loblolly which 

is a pine tree. The marsh and surrounding 

waters provide wintering habitat for thousands 

of ducks and nesting habitat for colonial 

waterbirds.”

 As they hike and explore the island they take many pictures 

to capture the beauty. They decide to try crabbing while they 

are there although they are unsuccessful in their attempt to 

catch any. 

Although they are allowed to fish they decided against it 

because they weren’t very successful with crabbing. 

Unfortunately since they can’t camp on this National Wildlife 

Refuge because they find a small motel to sleep at before our 

long days of driving that are ahead. 

The next couple of days they drive across the country to 

reach their next destinations. In probably the longest car 

ride either of them had ever been on, they traveled to Zion, 

Utah which is 2,490 miles from Cedar Island and 36 straight 

hours of driving. The wait was worth it. Zion is a 229 square 

mile national park that features Zion Canyon which is 15 

miles long and a half a mile deep. 

The first thing they did was pack a bookbag for hiking! They 

hiked to a peak to get an absolutely brilliant view of the 

park. Zion contains amazingly beautiful sandstones. The 

history of the park was what we found most awing. Nearly 

12,000 years ago the first people inhabited Zion and created 

petroglyphs on the walls of the stones. 

These were little pictures carved onto the stones that show 

people and animals, amongst other things. Many of these 

pictures are a mystery and hard to figure out. The 

petroglyphs were in a hidden, restricted part of the part 

shown to us by some locals. They were NOT aloud to touch 

the carvings under ANY circumstance, that is considered 

vandalization.

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