Since we moved into the Mountain Time Zone last week, we're slowly beginning to move our hours back in the direction they should be. I wasn't crawling out of bed until 9:00 - 10:00 on some mornings! Yikes, almost half of my workday was behind me by this time in my 'old' life. I've been setting the alarm the last week so we could get going on our site seeing adventures. Well, it's apparently worked. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. this morning without an alarm clock. Just like I used to do--it's like the brain knows what time to get up even when you're sound asleep.
Anyway, I was up very early this morning and grabbed some coffee and sit back to watch the news. Around 6:00 Mark got up and by 7:00 we had pretty much everything in the RV packed up and ready to head out. We were leaving Cortez, Colorado this morning, heading to Moab, Utah.
Before heading out this morning, we knew we would be cooking most days during our week in Moab, and since they don't have many grocery stores there we headed to the Walmart in Cortez this morning to buy our weekly groceries. We were back home and still had everything packed away and heading out by 9:00 a.m. this morning.
We only had a short 120 mile trip today from Cortez to Moab. The drive into Moab was absolutely, breathtaking. Mark and I were exchanging "OOHHHHHH and AWWWWW's" on our walkie talkies the last hour of the drive. Many many westerns, movies, and TV shows including Touched by an Angel were filmed in the southwest area of Utah. The scenery is not like anything either of us had ever seen. The stone formations were unlike anything we've ever seen. Just gorgeous.
We rarely make reservations because in this lifestyle you're really never sure exactly where you'll be on a given day, but we just squeaked by today. We almost left empty handed with no place to stay! Thank goodness we traveled on Wednesday. Had we arrived on the weekend or Mon/Fri we would not have had a place to stay. Countless RV Parks were full, but we finally found a place, got settled in and everything hooked up and then headed to the Utah Information Center to pick up lot's of brochures and info of Moab, Canyonlands and the surrounding areas.
Suffice to say we'll be quite busy this week. We plan on spending tomorrow at Arches National Park. The area is full of unique sandstone structures, on the Colorado River. We'll be spending several days checking out different areas of Canyonlands National Park. It's huge--makes the Grand Canyon look small. We also want to see Dear Horse State Park--several movies were filmed there and the scenery is just spectacular (notice I keep saying that? Can't think of a better adjective!)
Mark grilled a ribeye steak for himself and I had a hamburger pattie (don't care for steak believe it or not). It's Wednesday evening now and we've kicked back just chilling--anxiously waiting for tomorrow morning so we can go check out these places and take lot's of pictures. I'll post pictures tomorrow evening if I get a chance. Well, that's a wrap for us...we had a wonderful day and hope you did as well!~
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