EXPLORING THE MAGICAL AND THE MUNDANE


  • One more sleep before home

    You know it’s time to get back home when you start dreaming about your fur family. Yesterday felt like a very long day on the road, with Mr. Al taking the lion’s share. The I-15 corridor between Orem, Utah up to where it splits with I-84 is killer….Traffic is crazy. Driving the the speed limit…


  • Hello from Park City

    Been a couple of days and I thought I’d catch you up. The drive from Moab to Grand Junction is short, even with us taking Route 128 which winds along the Colorado river. Highly recommended. It is beautiful driving through towering red cliffs. Here’s a movie… Grand Junction is an interesting city. It has a…


  • Final Day in Moab

    Before we headed over to Grand Junction, we decided to view the last four pictograph panels around Moab. There are both books and websites on how to get to the local pictographs. There are even gps directions from Google, but not Apple Maps..go figure…But still…they can be hard to spot and those looking for them,…


  • Island in the Sky

    Don’t you love that evocative name for a National Park? That is the name of the portion of Canyonlands we visited…Island in the Sky. And it was. You cross a short bridge over a 6000 foot deep chasm and there you are. The annoying news first…not convinced this part of the park accommodates the volumes…


  • Remember when I spoke about the exploding star…super nova sounds cooler…that created the Crab Nebula and could be seen in our sky as a second sun? It was documented on Newspaper Rock back in 1054. Newspaper Rock is an amalgamation of pictographs carved by the Native Americans living in the area. Wikipedia states so succinctly……