Category: Randomness
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Bears Ears, Newspaper Rock,Canyonlands Needles District
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…
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Potash and Arches
Four miles out of town along Potash Road is a wall of rock with hundreds of petroglyphs. The more you looked, the more you see. Easy to find where to pull over as it is marked and no hiking is necessary. Just lots of looking. Yesterday was a wonderful day…
