Capital Reef is Fantastic! because the grandness is up close; better than Zion
or Grand Canyon. We definitely want to
come back in late October before the first snow storms because of the shaded
apple groves, planted by the first Mormons to inhabit the area will be cool. In fact all
Utah we want to visit again but after the heat and bring the family because
there are many “adventures” to be had. Back country backpacking while avoiding
snakes, cougars and coyotes, white river rafting along the Colorado and
house-boating on Lake Powell when there isn’t drought would be interesting.
I have always had a theory about the founding of different
religions; it has to do with unbearable sun and heat and persecution or the lack
of water and/or the use of drugs like peyote.
The Latter Day Saints-the Mormons must have been really persecuted to
settle here without air conditioner and miles and miles without another soul
except for a possible skinny rabbit or coyote eating the rabbit to talk to…no
water, etc… I think I could found a religion out here. I need Rain…
The next few slides are at the Canyonlands
Pat is very funny when he wants to be. Of
course, he has been drinking lots of ...water+…the people across from us here
at Horse Thief BLM campground have been drinking beer since we arrived at 2pm, it is now 5:30.
We are feeling a little bit like elderly an Mary and Joseph-No Room at any Inns
and National Parks and Bureau of Federal Lands do not have showers,
water or dump stations. But the Bureau does allow “usage” as in cattle roaming. Mule Deer, Pronghorns and Mountain sheep are the only large herbivores
around. And also we saw a couple drills-oil or gas? But the land is very very vast.
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| Horse Thief at Sundown |
Moab is the center of sin here ‘bouts, all kinds of restaurants
with full bars, hotels and campgrounds catering to those (like us that would
like to see water even if it is in a swimming pool.) But there is NO real WATER
on the skyway up in Canyonlands National Park or at Arches. After traveling through California in drought,
Nevada in drought except for the unusual flood near Las Vegas, god’s perhaps judgment,
WE need some WATER. We will speed
through the next 200 miles after Arches if there isn’t any and stay at one of those fancy
campground places to take a shower.
The photo is of a petroglyph we saw today at Capitol Reef,
you will have to look closely to see the space men. Fantastic, better than Zion
or Grand Canyon. We definitely want to
come back in late October before the first snow storms because of the shaded
apple groves, planted by the first Mormons to inhabit the area. In fact all
Utah we want to visit again but after the heat and bring the family because
there are many “adventures” to be had. Back country backpacking while avoiding
snakes, cougars and coyotes, white river rafting along the Colorado and
house-boating on Lake Powell when there isn’t drought would be interesting.
I think Pat might
want another extra wife before we are out of the state, but he hasn’t seen any
likely candidates except on the Queen’s Garden Trail at Bryce when perhaps he
was hallucinating due to low oxygen levels and walking up steep cliffs. I was thankful I didn’t have a heart attack,
the future grandkids will have to ride the steep dizzy horse trails without
me. I will cook buffalo flank steak on
the fire pit that they allowed because of the week before it drizzled. Most
places have curtailed camp fires. I am including one photo from the Canyonlands
where you can see rain falling from the sky but not reaching the ground.
It is so hot but not without beauty and grandness. Stark
beauty, now I truly understand the meaning.
If you are reading the bloggs, you should always scroll down to previous bloggs. We don't have Internet most places, but we try to write something every other day and then put them in when we can find 4G.
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