Okay folks - here is our first video installment ... promise they will get better! The Brahms is for Percy ... You can view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF15oiL_N9U... read more

July 14 Our last in day in Utah was spent in the Canyonlands State Park area. Our first stop was Newspaper Rock, a 200 foot slab of black slick rock covered with petroglyph graffiti: Native American (dating begins 1,500 years ago) as well as more modern Anglo graffiti ... of which Juan Rambo remarked we should consider aliens as possible inspiration. Driving through the park in and of itself was amazing. The canyons and mesas are only a preamble of the Grand Canyon which will be seven to eight times the size of the images you see here. We split the rest of our day visiting two Native American ruins in Canyonlands. The first was a simple hike to an old Puebloan granary and a loop hike to the cave dwelling that had lately sheltered roughneck ... read more

July 12-13 10:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Last night Juan Rambo took us to hunt for the moon up Bootlegger Canyon (about 15 miles outside of Moab). Say what you want to about the red rock countryside, but the night sky out here would blow away even the most ardent urban dweller. The dome of millions of stars stretched infinitely above the black silhouettes of cliffs. Using cairns, J Rambo led us 440 feet up 'slick stone' in the dark. Wolf spider eyes shined like diamond dust (…or like Edward Cullen/Generalissimo’s QofD) in the beams of our headlamps (thank you, Tommy K. and Scout!). Yunkyard corralled us all together, making sure we kept up. About a mile and a half in, J Rambo brought us to the Corona Arch (http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/moab/recreation/hiking_trails/corona_arch_trail.html). The Navajo sandstone arch extends more ... read more