We wasted no fourth dimension getting out on our ATV's yesterday. There volition live no riding today since it is the 24-hour interval nosotros scheduled for getting novel shoes on our mechanical horses. It's okay because we'll purpose the costless 24-hour interval to larn breakfast inwards town, view the quilt shop, do some grocery shopping, as well as perhaps larn some dejeuner at a local brewery nosotros like.
As for yesterday, nosotros rode a trail we've ridden before. The trail takes us past times monolithic stone formations impressive plenty for a repeat visit. It was a practiced day, although much of it was spent reading the map.
Our lastly view hither was inwards 2015, as well as some of the signposts listed inwards our mass were either unlike or completely absent. We knew nosotros were on the correct trail equally nosotros rounded the formation known equally Courthouse Rock.
Here, Mike decided to essay out something he's been itching to essay out since the starting fourth dimension of our trip. He was going to essay out to guide maintain his drone follow us equally nosotros rode.
He has an app on his telephone he tin sack banking firm gibe to run into if it is permissible to wing a drone at a detail location. Checking, it was. Nevertheless, nosotros rode alone a brusk distance earlier the drone would larn no farther as well as informed him he was inwards a restricted area. We suspect it was because nosotros were inside the boundary of the nearby airport. And nosotros took a incorrect plough here, afterwards riding over slabs of slickrock as well as some really rugged terrain.
Backtracking, nosotros finally ended upward on the correct trail to guide maintain us to Determination Towers, a really impressive formation. We'd seen it on our previous ride, as well as nosotros wanted to larn back. If you lot await closely inwards the epitome below, you lot tin sack run into 2 things. First, a crescent Luna indicated amongst an arrow to the correct of the larger tower.
Also inwards the epitome above, you lot tin sack run into 2 "arches" at the upper right. Arches are formed past times wind. Natural bridges are formed past times water. To our left were Monitor as well as Merrimac, shown inwards the epitome below.
Checking his app again, Mike was able to wing the drone all the way merely about the towers. We were hoping to larn an aerial shot of us amongst the towers. It was hard to run into the covert inwards the brilliant sunshine. It was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hard to guide maintain a moving painting of the covert since it was also hard to run into my photographic television set camera screen. Nevertheless, I managed to larn a shot as well as hence you lot could run into what the drone could see.
We guide maintain video taken past times the drone, but no way to deed it to the computer. When nosotros larn home, I'm hoping to do a postal service including some of the drone footage.
From there, nosotros headed for the bit impressive site along this trail, Tusher Tunnel. Here, nosotros ran into problems. The signpost marker it was missing, as well as nosotros missed the turnoff. We were likewise far along to desire to plough dorsum when nosotros realized our error, as well as and hence nosotros merely bagged that essay out as well as headed dorsum for the truck as well as the cease of our riding day. It's worth clicking on this former weblog post to run into our previous view to Tusher Tunnel. It's an impressive as well as odd formation. You tin sack also run into to a greater extent than pictures of the expanse inwards which nosotros were riding.
The alone other affair I guide maintain to exhibit you lot from yesterday is some slow-stitching. You mightiness remember I was worried I didn't guide maintain the correct coloring floss for stitching the sunflowers. As it turns out, I could pilfer some floss from the Sweet Land of Liberty I was working on when nosotros started the trip. I had some variegated burnt orangish to nighttime yellow, as well as I used that for the outer petals. It looks fine to me, as well as and hence I went amongst that.
So I've already mentioned what the coming 24-hour interval holds. It's yet early on as well as and hence I'll guide maintain some fourth dimension to run on my embroidery earlier nosotros start our day. We'll do some to a greater extent than riding tomorrow.