Blogs from Mexican Hat, Utah, United States, North America

MOAB Have spent the past two days in Moab, small population and dedicated to mountain biking, mountain off roading and rafting. A few interesting stores and little else. The rest has been partially rejuvenating, but the extra day in such a single dimension town, in a small hot room seemed a little excessive. Also because room so small we locked our bikes up on the back balcony out of general view. However some thieving person removed my Revelate seat bag and contents being two tubes spanner and multi tool and two cans of chain lube. $220+. Will Need To source some tyre levers before leaving town. Not Happy. Now the bikes are in the rooms which makes for access difficulties. MOAB to DEVILS CANYON. Section 5 CANYONLANDS STAGE 52. New section Distance Kms 106.30 kms; Total ... read more

After breaking camp at Devil's Canyon we drove the motorhome south to Gooseneck State Park. There we saw the Colorado river cutting its way through the canyon floor. We off loaded the motorcycle in this remote park and left for a 100 mile round trip into AZ to see Monument Valley, deep in the Navajo Nation. After returning to the motor home, (Maggie was frantic as we were gone for 4 hrs) we loaded up and drove north along scenic route 95. We entered the canyon floor of ancient rivers with side walls over 1,500 feet. The colors were spectacular and around every turn the landscape was more impressive than the last. We crossed lake Powell in the upper end of Glen Canyon National Park. We drove past a massive Capital Reef with 1,000 foot rock ... read more

March 22,2011 Mexican Hat Utah to Cortez , Colorado After giving Monument Valley a good looking over continued to Mexican Hat , Utah and although I had considered making a short day of it wasn't very impressed with Mexican Hat and so made the rest of the day into a "driving day" and drove on to Cortez, Colorado. Southeastern Utah was very scenic though and I stopped and took pictures ot the Valley Of The Gods from the road, and then pressed on to Colorado. I Pretty much pressed on to Cortez and checked into my motel at the Budget Host for $46.84 and called it a night after eating my dinner of a microwave baked potato and whole wheat bread with tea. I could pretty much hear what my neighbors said through the walls but ... read more

The tour of Monument Valley, a seventeen mile loop over ungraded gravel roads, took about 2 hours. The monuments are great too look at and if you have ever watched a western, The Eiger Sanction, Back to the Future 3 or even Forrest Gump, you have seen a part of Monument Valley. We did take a short round trip back to Four Corners (200 miles) as we were told that it was open Friday through Sunday. What she didn't say is that the monument itself is underconstruction and was not accessible. We would not have bothered. Instead, there were over 50 Navajo craft vendors there. Very disappointed. It is Navajo territory so I will assume the best intentions. We did take a couple pictures of the construction. We drove through Mexican Hat on our way to ... read more