Trip Odometer: 10,186
This report comes to you from Escalante, UT. We’ve settled here for five days to do some exploring and catch up on our reporting!
May 15 -16: We left Cortez and Mesa Verde and landed in Monticello, UT, which is right at the gateway to Canyonlands National Park.
May 17-18: We originally thought this would be when we went to our friend’s place in Colorado, but he’s so wilderness-y that to get to him you have to cross a creek (!!), and with the recent snowmelt and rain the water was running too high. So, instead we spent two days in Moab. The town of Moab itself? Meh. Too touristy and pretty bougie. Overpriced pub food and SO MANY ATV rentals. But the lands around it?!!? Astonishing.
On May 19 we moved on to Colorado for 12 days full of friends, art, history, ranching, and more rocky canyons. We need to unpack all those experiences a bit more before posting about them, but we’ll get back to you soon! One last Arches vista before we sign off:
So cool you’re in Escalante! One of our favorite places. Be sure to check out Hole-in-the-Rock road if you haven’t already.
We just came back from a road trip down Hole-In-The-Wall over to Devil’s Garden. Still checking for chipped teeth from that road!
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Love that part of the country great skies. Looks much better than freezing in CA. So fun to see where you are. Boogie on.
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Dear K & M, Great photos and reportage. Sitting here back in Sitka listening to I Need a Miracle w/ Swifty. Fun day with Rotary wildlife, aka Allen Marine plenty of whales and close up, Hazel liked it too. OK, great to see what a journey you are on.Aloha, Jeff B
Cool! but maybe not with regard to temperatures. What are the high and low temps?
loving the pics
Temperature has been great! Mid 50’s in the evening, and in the mid 70’s during the day. A couple times when the temp has threatened to push into the 80’s in the afternoons the sky has turned overcast and it has cooled. The trick is high altitude. We’ve been at or above 5500 ft for most of our canyon time.