Moab, UT Tuesday July 2

We went to Dead Horse State Park and hiked. Like Grand Canyon but not as deep but almost as spectacular. No crowds. I wonder if people don't know about it. We saw almost more Germans, French and Asians than Americans. Beautiful. Hard to leave and quit looking at it. We went on to Canyonlands National Park but Noche can't hike on National Park trails so Noche and I sat in shade while f did a brief hike to see an arch.

Negro Bill Canyon

Moab, UT Monday July 1

We hiked to Negro Bill Canyon (really that's the name!). We hiked to an arch. We could see the arch in the distance with people on it who had rappelled up it. The path was sandy. It was like the trail to the sand slide in Big Bend.

Moab, UT

Moab, UT June 30

Gorgeous! Like Big Bend. We saw gorgeous sunset that turned everything red sitting by the RV. Morning brought spectacular sunrise as we were leaving to hike, hiked 4 miles through Carona Canyon. We found some places that allow dogs in trails. I even got up at 6 am to hike to avoid the heat!

Fire

Fire

Grand Junction, CO June 29

Drove to Grand Junction. Fires are all over the place in CO and we got detoured off the highway because of a fire. We could see smoke in distance and all over sky. But detour was beautiful scenic tour and except for dark smoke we could see over the horizon it was a nice trip. We were only 20 minutes from Grand Junction when we had to get off main highway so trip was lot longer than we planned on. Dead tired when we arrived

RV Problems

RV Problems

Fort Collins, CO Monday 25

Something is wrong with hitch so we had to have that worked on. Took a few days but people at hardware store were really helpful.

Sheridan and Habitat Friends

Sheridan, WY June 23
In Sheridan WY to see our Habitat friends from last year. KOA not as great. You can hear highway traffic. But lots of trees and family/dog friendly. Brian, staff person for Habitat, came to RV tonight for dinner. F made stew in his new crock pot. We really enjoyed the visit. The next night we got with the Thompsons. He is Sheridan Habitat president. We enjoyed seeing them again.

Devil's Tower

Devil's Tower June 22
The Devil's Tower KOA is beautiful and every site has a view of the Tower. Most have trees and lots of shade. Noche has a place to run. They asked if he was under "voice control." Fred said it was more like "cookie control." There are some Amish camped here in tents and they take a walk through the camp every night. We can hear the wind and cottonwoods rustling and lots of bird calls. We regret we didn't plan to stay here more than 2 nights. We took a hike around the base of the tower today. Some people were climbing it and they looked like ants from the path. The Tower and especially June are sacred to the Indians and climbers are asked to not climb the Tower in June in respect of Indian beliefs. Guess some don't care.