Leaving Moab...

Hey guys.

Today we are packing up and headed West again. It was a nice 3 day stop.

The first day we were here, Thursday, we putz in the morning, then showered and went exploring. There's a nice little town here. We went tire hunting, for Dave's spare, and finally found a place. Then we needed to find a rim, or the place with the tire could order one. It ended up that he needed to order one, because no where else had it.

We also found a mailing center, and mailed out my camera to Illinois. Stupid Canon. I'm having it mailed to Montana, hopefully it'll be there before I am.

We had lunch at HogiYogi, where there was a miserable girl working, and where this ridiculous fucking family came in. They couldn't make up their minds, their kids were out of control, the dad was acting like an idiot, and they kept having to ask to girl working (not the miserable one) for something else. We sympathized with her through smiles .

Then we headed to the Hole in the Rock. Which is a house, built into the rock, and they made a tour and a touristy attraction around it. We took the tour, which was kinda creepy because they left the house exactly the same after the people died, so all their stuff was still in there. We wandered around outside, then left. It was too damn hot to be dwaddling around. There was a petting zoo, that we skipped.

We went to the Arches National Park next. It was hot as hell there too. We stayed in the car for most of the trip. But decided to get out at the windows and walk up. We climbed around on the North Window, found a cool little crevice to climb in. Took lots of pictures, and left. We were tired of walking after that, it must have been like, 100 degrees in the sun. We went to the 4wd road, called Tower Arch in our 4wd road book, but called Willows Pass in the park. It was so long. I got to drive, so Dave could sit on the hood and take pictures. There was deep sand which was a pain in the ass, and rocks which were fine. It is rated Moderate in our book. I'd say towards the end it got there. We finally got out of there around...10 or something. It was dark, and late. We drove back to the campground, ate and went to bed.

Friday we woke up late. We were super lazy in the morning, then I finally got up to do laundry. That took 2+ hours, and 7 dollars, especially since I had to scrub my jeans with a plastic knife and soap to get the mud out from when we got stuck in Colorado. I had already washed them once, but they didn't come clean at all. Now they're pretty close to clean. Good enough I guess.

After laundry we went to get Dave's tire, and I went to get a tracking number for my package I had sent with my camera in it. We got Wendy's for lunch because I was starving and the people were idiots so it ended up costing 13 bucks. I was pissed. We stopped at an electronics place to see if they had a charger for my laptop. The only thing they had was 65 bucks for a generic thing with lots of ends you could change. Way too much money.

Dave saw a Fujifilm camera there, 10mp 12x optical zoom, for 250$ so, I bought it. It's probably going to end up as his birthday present, unless someone wants to buy a gently used camera when I get home. His moms sony just wasn't cutting it.

Then we went wheeling. We picked Kanes Creek Canyon, out of the book. It was rated Difficult, but really, have you seen Dave's jeep? We were fine. We went the wrong way at first, and took a green, because the trail signs were confusing. By the time we got off the green, and back to the red, it was 730. We took it anyway. We were doing good. We crossed dry creek beds alot, wishing that there was water in it, but nope, none. It was hot as hell still. We must have drank a gallon each at least. And we were still thirsty.

When it got dark, the trail got a little tricky, especially because we were on his high narrow shelf road going up the canyon. There wasn't much room for mistakes, or give. We finally got through that part, and were a bit lost in the creek, when I finally saw the pipeline road off the side. Dave was swearing because his jeep wasn't working right, and we were tired, and hot.

We finally got out of there, alive none the less. We called Dominos, ordered that pizza, got ice from McDonalds, and more 2/2.22 Powerades. We are going through those like crazy, they're 32 oz. Good deal we think. 1.11 each.

Came back to the camper ,eat some foods. I shower, Dave falls asleep. It's hot still, being in just your undies doesn't even help. Dave wakes up around 4 and goes to shower. We wake up around 9, and I get up. Dave lazes around while I start packing up the camper, and now here we are.

Before I forget, there are tons of bunnies and lizards and birds in this campground. There have been atleast 4 bunnies a day almost in our campsite. and TONS of freaking lizards. Pretty cool.

Hot hot hot. We're heading towards Lake Tahoe today. Hoping to go rafting though, before that. We'll see what happens.

We have French Canadian neighbors here. At the campground. They're nice. Little girl is cute.

Later dudes.

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