Lisa
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The Needles Outpost
We leave the Moab region and head to The Needles section of Canyonlands National Park which is about a 2-hour drive after a half-hour detour around a closure on highway 221. We are staying at The Needles Outpost, an interesting little campground that shares roads and borders with the park and the national forest. We…
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Canyonlands National Park – Islands in the Sky
Canyonlands National Park is our playground for the day. We park at the visitor’s center for Tony to take a meeting then we pack as many of the hikes in as we can. My watch showed over 32,000 steps when we were done! This park was established in the early 60s and has evidence of…
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Arches National Park – Day #2
We went back to Arches today, to do a long trail in Devil’s Garden. We parked at the Fiery Furnace so Tony could take a meeting. You have to get a special pass or walk with a ranger here. I’m sure it is very beautiful near sunset with the full sunshine on these red rocks.…
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Dino Tracks
Today’s hike, Potash Road Petroglyphs and Dinosaur tracks along with Longbow Arch trail, had a little bit of everything. There was a rocky short drive to trailhead parking. Then climbing up rocks to get to the paleontological and archeological artifacts. To continue to the Longbow Arch trail, we had steep rocks to scramble up, less…
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Arches National Park – Day #1
Usain’s first day in a national park! We got our reserved entry time to Arches National Park for 8:00 am, and drove to the Windows arches as they are very popular. There are easy walks up to the arches and a short “primitive” walk around the back of them where you can get away from…
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Fisher Towers
We started our stay in the Moab region with a big hike today. We did the Fisher Towers trail along with the side “primitive” trail called Red Onion trail. We scrambled up rock, tramped through a mostly dry wash hoping it wasn’t raining anywhere near here, and even had to use a metal ladder to…
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Utah!
We have arrived in Utah, our destination state for this trip. Our campsite is in the city of Moab. It has an interesting speed limit that is even slower than the previous 7 mph we posted. We found a mule deer while walking on the camping property and we also located a food truck park…
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Laundry, Ugh
I did some laundry (a necessary chore and I miss my laundry room) while Tony worked this morning in Glenwood Springs, CO. Ami’s Acres was our campsite for the night. It was right off I-70, but we found places to walk. In the picture below I am pointing to some wild turkeys in a horse…
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Fire Water
As we left Lake Dillon, we walked the town of Frisco’s Main Street and had a wonderful lunch of breakfast food from Bread and Salt. Then we spent the night at the Stoneyard Distillery in Dotsero, CO. Our drinks, all made from distilled Colorado beet sugar. Our taste test at the distillery started with their…
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Mountain Driving
Our first mountain driving with Usain, and he did well:). We made it through the ups and downs and the Eisenhower Tunnel just fine. Our destination was Heaton Campground on Dillon Lake between Dillon and Frisco, Colorado. We are back to the bear boxes in the campsites. The van ahead of us in the picture…