Friday afternoon, Mike and Brian rolled into Moab. They picked me and my stuff up and then we drove the four and a half hours to Page, Arizona. Another car of people was supposed to be at our campsite before us but turns out we actually beat them. It was already 9 pm by the time we got there but the other car had dinner. So, we passed the time, in the torrential wind and inches of very soft sand, trying to light some charcoal (which don't tell the park service--we technically weren't supposed to have on the beach). It was a pretty frustrating process but finally, the boy scouts got the fire started.
When the rest of our friends showed up, we got literally everything covered in sand trying to put the tents up in gale force winds and finally, at about 11pm, finally ate tinfoil dinners.
Thankfully, the wind had died down by morning and we went to pick up our rental boat. I am so sorry to tell you all that we didn't get a picture of the truck they lent us to tow the boat. It was a 1988 Ford Lariat whose maximum speed was 50 mph and the driver door was brown instead of blue like the rest of the truck. The radio didn't work, neither did the AC and there was a Travis Tritt CD from the 80s and a brand new straw hat sitting on the seat when we got in. Brian and I decided that everything about our rental experience can be described in one word--quality. Anyway, the boat worked fine and we had a great day of boating. And here's what our "campsite" looked like. It was great minus the wind the first night and drunk people everywhere, all the time.
By the way, the credit for all of these pictures goes to Brian and his snazzy new camera.
Sunday morning, we got up nice and early and drove to Cortez, CO. On our way there we stopped at Four Corners. This is what we found.
It was under construction! Who does that?
After attending a very unique sacrament meeting, we drove to Mesa Verde National Park. It was a cool place. There are literally hundreds of ancient cliff dwellings all over the mesa. It's pretty neat. Here's me just hanging out in one.
We spent all day in the park and didn't get to our campsite until dark--again. We were supposed to have dutch oven pot roast for dinner but nobody wanted to wait until 2 am for it to be done so we made pancakes at about 11 for dinner instead. Yum.
Today, after changing a flat tire on Mike's Xterra in Colorado, Brian and Mike dropped me off in Moab and headed back to Provo. What a weekend! It was fun, eventful and exhausting. I hope we do it again sometime!
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Glad you had fun!!
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