Blogs from Moab, Utah, United States, North America - page 12

We went to Zax Bar in Moab and watched the Giants kick the Rockies BUTT 10 to 0... read more

We kicked off the day in search of a camera store, but we got up too early! Impressively we ate breakfast and were packed up by 8:00! Since the camera stores weren’t open yet, we stopped at target and picked up “The Essential John Denver” (thanks mom and dad, this was on you!). Then we drove downtown taking pictures of all the signs mentioned in On The Road by Jack Kerouac. We did eventually get to Mike’s Camera store and replaced the lens that was murdered yesterday—except now we got a lens with twice the zoom. You’ll notice that the new pictures are less landscape and more zoomed. Afterwards we were on the road again-this time to Moab, Utah. Traffic was really bad west of Denver and we lost about 2 hours ☹. But we did ... read more

My time in Moab and Red Rock country is winding down. Sunday I did a 280 mile run with 25 other Miata friends “around” the La Sal Mountains into Colorado. It was a beautiful day for a top down drive. We stopped for lunch at Gateway Canyons. It is about 50 miles south of Grand Junction. The resort was developed by John Hendricks who founded the Discovery Channel. There is a nice car museum in the resort. We had to drive on the ‘super slab’ (I-70) for a short distance from Grand Junction into Utah before turning off on Utah 128 and a drive along the Colorado River. While we were zipping along at 75 mph (the speed limit in Colorado and Utah) I was reminded of the T-shirt I saw on the Route 66 run ... read more

Wow what a spectacular day in Moab. I hiked to Delicate Arch this morning. Oh my goodness what an experience. I’ve seen hundreds of images of Delicate Arch and even seen it from another viewpoint at least ½ mile away when I was here in 2008, but seeing it up close is amazing. It’s a mile and half hike across slick rock and coming up a ledge on the backside of the arch. When you come around the last rock formation and Delicate Arch appears right before your eyes, it takes your breath away! I just thought that first view in Grand Staircase - Escalante Monday was impressive. Seeing Delicate Arch up close and personal was an incredible moment. But I guess I had a different experience than one guy who commented to me that it ... read more

(NB: the photos are not in order because of the brilliant uploading programme on this website, hopefully you can suss out what we mean when we describe a photo as "and more") So its been a while, we've been on the Colorado Plateau, a big piece of rock in the southwest of America. Since we last blogged we've been to Yosemite, absolutely breathtaking, jaw-droppingly beautiful. We saw the highest waterfall in America (5th highest in the world) among several others that we climbed to the top of, Heloise taking it slowly in some of the bits with sheer drop-offs. Despite bear warnings we left Yosemite safe and sound. After that we headed through gold country, small towns that probably have the best times behind them, on to Sequoia National Park where it was snowing! We were ... read more