Fallin' arches

With the life savings gone via Vegas, we thought we’d have a look at holes in rocks, specifically, Arches National Park. It’s kind of silly, they specifically tell you not to stray from the trail getting there, but once you arrive at an arch, there are no restrictions and people are climbing all over them. They had recently had a very rare 3-inch rain that had done some damage to the park that delayed our arrival to and departure from the park.

Got rain?

Your hosts mugging for the camera before going into Arches NP.

Taking a rest before going to Arches NP

Scenery outside the park

There are suppose to be 2,000 arches in the park, but I think we saw…three. You have to hike quite a bit to see most of the arches. Well, we decided to work off last night’s excellent dinner from the Moab Brewpub (Moab, Utah where we spent the night, just 3 miles from the park entrance) with a 3 mile round trip hike to look at one of the famous arches. It was quite a death march getting there, but it was very spectacular scenery that photos just don’t do it justice, but here are our attempts.Storage building at old abandoned Wolfe Ranch in Arches. The living quarters weren't much nicer. Notice the blue-green tint? There's copper all over this place, and with the prices of copper and uranium going up, they are going to start mining in this area.

Of course no blog that we do would be complete without photos of us climbing on rock, so to not disappoint:
The long and winding road out of Arches NP

Coming into Santa FE

After Arches, we took a very scenic and long drive to Santa Fe where we are staying in the Roy Rogers room at the Silver Saddle Motel. It’s a funky old motel, from the Route 66 era. Most of the motel rooms are named after western movie stars.Me with my new friend at the Silver Saddle. I blog and he runs and spits a lot.

Selling roasted green chili in the Silver Saddle parking lot

More new friends in Santa Fe
What Dave really does on vacation