There isn't a lot to tell virtually yesterday's drive. It was short. We stopped off at Starvin' Arvin's for breakfast at the encouragement of my friend Sharon, formerly known every bit "Unknown." It was a proficient way to get down the day, hence give thank yous you, Sharon. After that, it was a quick trip across what remained of Colorado too hence nosotros crossed into the groovy nation of Utah.
Yeah...I don't know what's going on alongside that car, unless they were trying unsuccessfully to satelite us.
Ahead was simply immediately highway, too piffling else.
Out my window, it looked similar this:
After virtually an hour, nosotros turned due south toward Moab, too layers of mountains came into view.
As nosotros got closer, the blood-red pinnacles of Arches National Park began to demo themselves. We are on the W side of the common here.
There is a pocket-sized airdrome exterior Moab. As nosotros approached, nosotros saw dozens of skydivers taking the plunge. They're a piffling difficult to selection out inwards the side past times side image, too at that topographic point are belike to a greater extent than I missed.
Passing by, nosotros began to come across some colorful hillsides. The light-green inwards the prototype below comes from copper. The blood-red from iron.
Even closer into town, nosotros were passing past times the due north side of Canyonlands National Park.
We've visited both Arches too Canyonlands twice before, too hence nosotros won't practise that this time. If you're interested, yous tin read my old posts from those visits. For Arches, yous tin click correct here. For Canyonlands, click correct here. And those are all the pictures I receive got from yesterday. From hither on, I'm going to last recycling some old images from previous trips. Recycling is good...climate change, yous know.
As nosotros approached Moab, nosotros could come across it off inwards the distance.
We had a fairly frustrating check-in, which powerfulness last difficult to explicate inwards writing. We had long-standing reservations for a 55-foot site. We were going to receive got to practise some jockeying simply about because our programme was to accept the camper off the truck for the get down fourth dimension this trip. But nosotros are also towing a trailer, too hence nosotros needed to get down unhitch the trailer. We left the trailer at a infinite designated for trailers too drove to our spot alone to realize it was "pull-in" only...not "pull-through," but "pull-in" every bit opposed to "back-in." I promise that makes sense. If nosotros were to back-in, all the hook-ups would last on the incorrect side of the camper.
On the other hand, backing inwards was the alone way this whole matter was going to go because if nosotros pulled in, nosotros couldn't larn the truck out from nether the camper. There was a wall on the other side of the space. Not alone that, but the infinite was 55 feet long alone if yous didn't count the tree parked simply about 12 feet from the wall, making those 12 feet unusable. We could accept the camper off the truck (and nosotros did), too serpent our hoses too cords underneath to attain our hook-ups (which nosotros did), but it agency a rather unseemly kink inwards our sewer too H2O hoses. It's non hence of import alongside the water, but the sewer...well, simply recall virtually gravity too how that all works, too you'll sympathise the problem.
Then the side past times side work was what to practise virtually the trailer, which was parked a distance away, out of our view. It would last slow plenty to steal the whole trailer along alongside the ATV's, although ballsy for fifty-fifty the most committed thief. We were to a greater extent than worried virtually the 5-gallon containers of diesel too gasoline. Those would last easier to steal, too at today's prices, fairly valuable too. It seemed every bit if at that topographic point wasn't plenty room left at the site to conform parking it where nosotros were located.
So that's a lot of whining virtually a relatively tike manner, but it's i of those frustrations i experiences piece traveling. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piffling similar existence assigned a smoking room when yous specifically requested nonsmoking.
We had some lunch, took naps, too hence drove into town to milk tremble it off. We honey Moab. This is at to the lowest degree our 4th visit. Driving into town, it looks similar this:
On the left side of the image, is the sign for Eddie McStiff's. It was happy hour, too nosotros desperately needed some "happy." We took wages of their half-price appetizers too margaritas. We walked upwards too downwardly the principal drag, stopping inwards at the Red Dirt Shirt store. The shirts are dyed using the blood-red dirt from the local landscape. On a previous visit, nosotros were informed me they opened their master copy t-shirt store on the isle of Kauai inwards Hawaii. Hurricane Iniki left them alongside a warehouse total of white t-shirts dyed blood-red too the Original Red Dirt Shirt store was born. Now at that topographic point are stores located inwards Hawaii, Arizona, too Utah. There are lots to conduct from, too it's fun simply to read the messages on the shirts. If yous desire to come across some of them, yous tin click on that link I've given you.
Moab is a fun piffling town alongside something for everybody. I simply similar some of the buildings. Here's i I took for my Windows too Walls quilt, which I swear I volition get down someday earlier I die.
When nosotros got dorsum to the campground, nosotros figured out a way to tally both the trailer too our truck into the infinite remaining at our site, too hence all is good now. Also, Smitty got out for a curt walk, too hence fifty-fifty he was happy alongside how the 24-hour interval ended. He enjoyed a proficient whorl inwards the blood-red dirt, which turned his white fur to a prissy shade of terra cotta.
And, yes, fifty-fifty that film is recycled. That was afterwards his walk inwards Kanab several years ago. This isn't his get down blood-red dirt rodeo.
It's early on every bit I'm writing this, too most everyone is withal asleep. We're planning to practise some riding today, peradventure to Determination Towers, a house we've been before. It's a fabulous trail, too yous tin come across some of the images from our final trip at that link I've given you. However, I go out these decisions upwards to the Resident Traveling Engineer, too since he's withal asleep, nada has been decided yet. Tomorrow, nosotros receive got an appointment to receive got novel tires position on the ATV's. They are 12 years old, too withal sporting their master copy tires. We decided non to force our luck whatever further. While that's happening, we'll belike see the i quilt store inwards town.
So that's all I receive got to tell yous for today. We'll last staying position for a few days here, too hence I'll receive got to a greater extent than to tell yous inwards my side past times side post.