8/25/11 Day 20 continued- Good bye Colorado and Hello Utah! Wow, after we literally made it through Bedrock (seriously the last town on the edge of Colorado) the temperatures were soaring in this canyon up to a little over 100. We crossed over the base of the La Sal Mountains and headed north to Moab, UT.
We checked into the Moab KOA where we had enjoyed a stay last year. The driver of the motorcycle was brilliant and rented a camp cabin as he looked up above the canyons and saw a storm brewing! Here we are enjoying some HOT 100 degree sunshine before we went for a swim. And lucky we got the cabin to throw our sleeping bags in because a 4 hour rain and thunderstorm hit hard. Those cabins filled up quickly with tent campers! I spent some of the time downloading pictures to the blog with the s-l-o-w internet connection.
8/26/11 Day 21 Up to a beautiful morning with the redstone cliffs in our background of our campsite. Mark scrambled up some eggs and after breakfast we headed out to view the sites of Arches National Park. It was only about 8 miles up the road from our camp. We decided to stay a second night here so we could enjoy Arches and then come back to relax for the afternoon at the campground. Hopefully some swimming without a thunderstorm!
In one of the parking lots at the view points we came across this motorcycle. For the motorcycle afficionados we had to take this picture. It's a BMW R1200 and the bike had been all over the world. It had 4 different types of spare tires mounted on each side of the bikes wheels and inside the tires he had extra gas cans and water bottles wedged inbetween that! The whole bike was tattooed with stickers from all his ventures including Germany, Argentina, other S. America spots, San Francisco, Yellowstone, the Yukon and catch this one.... Winthrop, WA!! We got close ups of that one. He had the requisite rubber chicken hanging off the cargo rack on the back! It made us feel like we are on a motorhome!! We have seen so many vehicles from all over the country. Most of the campgrounds seem to have more foreigners than USA travelers. It's fun to listen to all the different languages.
Back to the Arches sights! Arches has the greatest concentration of natural stone arches in the world showing the natural effects of erosion of the Entrada Sandstone 150 million years ago. There are more than 2,000 arches, red canyons, spires and balancing rocks. This structure is often referred to as the Three Wise Men or Tower of Babel.
"The Courthouse Towers" viewpoint. Each turn had a new expression of the what Mother Nature treats us with. It was nice to view all this again since we had done so much canyon touring last year. It's the only one we are going to visit this time.
The Sand Dune Arch area. It was just like at the beach with a breeze into between the rock walls on a sandy floor. It was just missing a body of water that I would have gladly jumped into!
The infamous Delicate Arch. We hiked up the rocky trail, 1 mile roundtrip, to get closer to the arch. We passed on the 3 mile hike since it was in the 90's by now! From here we passed by Devil's Garden Area and viewed the old Wolfe Ranch. Spectacular sites and we are so appreciative of what we have been able to do. Back to our camp cabin that we rented for another night. We got a good afternoon swim in and I worked on the blogsite inbetween swimming laps! Life continues to be good and we will head northwest tomorrow towards Salt Lake City. It's nice to be footloose and fancy free on this venture. It's a test of our stamina, our patience, our tolerance of constant weather changes and being a short distance apart 24 hours a day! So far the grade is an A! We are signing up for another week of this motorcycle touring school..... YEAH!
8/25/11 Day 20 continued- Good bye Colorado and Hello Utah! Wow, after we literally made it through Bedrock (seriously the last town on the edge of Colorado) the temperatures were soaring in this canyon up to a little over 100. We crossed over the base of the La Sal Mountains and headed north to Moab, UT.
We checked into the Moab KOA where we had enjoyed a stay last year. The driver of the motorcycle was brilliant and rented a camp cabin as he looked up above the canyons and saw a storm brewing! Here we are enjoying some HOT 100 degree sunshine before we went for a swim. And lucky we got the cabin to throw our sleeping bags in because a 4 hour rain and thunderstorm hit hard. Those cabins filled up quickly with tent campers! I spent some of the time downloading pictures to the blog with the s-l-o-w internet connection.
8/26/11 Day 21 Up to a beautiful morning with the redstone cliffs in our background of our campsite. Mark scrambled up some eggs and after breakfast we headed out to view the sites of Arches National Park. It was only about 8 miles up the road from our camp. We decided to stay a second night here so we could enjoy Arches and then come back to relax for the afternoon at the campground. Hopefully some swimming without a thunderstorm!
In one of the parking lots at the view points we came across this motorcycle. For the motorcycle afficionados we had to take this picture. It's a BMW R1200 and the bike had been all over the world. It had 4 different types of spare tires mounted on each side of the bikes wheels and inside the tires he had extra gas cans and water bottles wedged inbetween that! The whole bike was tattooed with stickers from all his ventures including Germany, Argentina, other S. America spots, San Francisco, Yellowstone, the Yukon and catch this one.... Winthrop, WA!! We got close ups of that one. He had the requisite rubber chicken hanging off the cargo rack on the back! It made us feel like we are on a motorhome!! We have seen so many vehicles from all over the country. Most of the campgrounds seem to have more foreigners than USA travelers. It's fun to listen to all the different languages.
Back to the Arches sights! Arches has the greatest concentration of natural stone arches in the world showing the natural effects of erosion of the Entrada Sandstone 150 million years ago. There are more than 2,000 arches, red canyons, spires and balancing rocks. This structure is often referred to as the Three Wise Men or Tower of Babel.
"The Courthouse Towers" viewpoint. Each turn had a new expression of the what Mother Nature treats us with. It was nice to view all this again since we had done so much canyon touring last year. It's the only one we are going to visit this time.
The Sand Dune Arch area. It was just like at the beach with a breeze into between the rock walls on a sandy floor. It was just missing a body of water that I would have gladly jumped into!
The infamous Delicate Arch. We hiked up the rocky trail, 1 mile roundtrip, to get closer to the arch. We passed on the 3 mile hike since it was in the 90's by now! From here we passed by Devil's Garden Area and viewed the old Wolfe Ranch. Spectacular sites and we are so appreciative of what we have been able to do. Back to our camp cabin that we rented for another night. We got a good afternoon swim in and I worked on the blogsite inbetween swimming laps! Life continues to be good and we will head northwest tomorrow towards Salt Lake City. It's nice to be footloose and fancy free on this venture. It's a test of our stamina, our patience, our tolerance of constant weather changes and being a short distance apart 24 hours a day! So far the grade is an A! We are signing up for another week of this motorcycle touring school..... YEAH!
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