May 6, 2021 Moab was named for a city in the Bible. It was incorporated in 1902 and was originally an agricultural community. Subsequently, uranium, vanadium, potash, manganese, oil, and gas have been mined there. More recently, it has been the setting for film making. Today its 5000 residents also Read more…
May 5, 2021 Today we moved from Bryce Canyon City to Moab, Utah. The most surprising part of the drive was passing the boyhood home of Butch Cassidy. We got a quick photo through the driver’s window. We met up with Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy to visit the Read more…
May 4, 2021 “Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place.” Paiute Indians lived in this area long before the arrival of European Americans. A sacred oral tradition of the Paiutes states that the hoodoos are ancient “Legend People” turned into stone by Coyote as Read more…
May 3, 2021 While we waited for the shuttle to take us into Zion Canyon, we chatted with a law enforcement officer (she couldn’t tell us what she did) who had been at Zion a couple of days. We relied on her suggestions to hike the Kayenta Trail from the Read more…
May 2, 2021 Today we wanted to see what we could of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and we thought it’d be fun to show Jane’s brother and sister-in-law, Jon and Nancy, some of the sites we’d enjoyed in the area. Our route, about 200 miles, is pictured below. A Read more…
May 1, 2021 We may have been remiss in not telling you a little about Page. In ancient times it was inhabited by Pueblo people, but they did not live in the area continuously. Navajo people continue to live in the area although 24 square miles for the city was Read more…
April 30, 2021 Hanging Gardens Sometimes water traveling to the aquifer meets rock too hard to penetrate and the water seeps out of a hillside. The moisture supports plants that create a hanging garden. We walked about half a mile to hanging gardens growing in an alcove in the middle Read more…
April 29, 2021 We were a little disappointed to find that no boats were available for rent and that no tours were being offered because of COVID, but we had a pleasant day making discoveries as we sought geocaches. On a future visit, we’ll be sure to book water transportation Read more…
Faithful followers will assume that we have spent the past two years in Salem, Oregon where this blog last found us. A lot has happened since then (of course), the most significant of which (for our purposes anyway) was that writing the blog was less fun than having fun. Here Read more…
September 20-26, 2018 We allowed a week in the Salem area and very much appreciated some downtime. We explored the area, had the front-end of the coach aligned, had the windshield on the Jeep replaced (thank goodness for Florida insurance–no deductible for windshield repairs), and shopped (no sales tax in Read more…