Day Five

We're getting a late start today. It's 8:30 and we're not on the road yet. We stayed last night at a Comfort Suites and just finished up with the continental breakfast. The room was free courtesy of my Choice Privilege points, so that was cool. Steve has taken the truck to the car wash to erase the physical remnants of our brief excursion on Cottonwood Canyon Road! Then we'll be headed off to Canyonlands National Park.

One thing we've noticed. The sky here is like dark velvet, sprinkled with glittering stars and glowing planets. Beautiful. Virtually no light pollution. Even the street lamps in Moab were designed to pool the light on the sidewalk and not reflect it up.

Next time we're here, we're going to rent a Jeep.


Wow!!! Canyonlands is unbelievably awesome. As much as we loved Capitol Reef, we also loved Canyonlands. It even had an arch. Beautiful windswept mesa tops. Simply divine and we didn't want to leave. We left though and drove to Mesa Verde near Cortez, Colorado. A nervewracking drive up a snow covered mountain with icy road but the pueblo dwellings were really incredible. One was in this beautiful little green gorge, I could have moved right in though it would have been a little chilly. Pics later.