Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Moab! We can't wait to go back....

So Mandy, the kids, and I spent Sunday through Wednesday before this Thanksgiving down in Moab, UT. Moab is just a few miles from the entrance to Arches National Park and about 30 or so miles from Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands Nation Parks. It's the most surrealistic environment this Texas kid has ever seen in person. My boss, a more-than-avid canyoneer and self proclaimed desert rat, has been trying to get us to go down there for years now, but it's just never worked out until now. Why did we let it take us so long?



Moab is a mountain biking and off-roading mecca along with being located very close to several national parks, so going down in November you not only avoid all of road hogging sprocket jockeys on their bikes (though we did see several down there, three dillholes actually riding at night withou any lights... natural selection in action I guess), you get off-season rates. We stayed in a dumpy hotel room the first night after we left for Moab a day earlier than we'd planned (you take what you can get right). We spent the next three days/two nights in a sweet one bedroom cabin right on the Colorado river about 14 miles outside of Moab. It was also a winery, but the wine tasted like Mad Dog 20/20, so it's not as posh as you might be thinking. It was definitely not a bad way to spend our 8th wedding anniversary!!



The pictures with the stables and the ones with the river are the views from our cabin. It was pretty isolated and very quiet (besides the sound of the running river) just as I'd hoped. The rest of the pictures are just random ones from all over on our trip. The pics aren't the greatest as we realized AFTER the trip that our camera was on the fritz. Still, you get the gist of it. I wish there was more scale to them because some of the photos just don't do the massiveness of some of the formations and arches justice. Sorry it took so long for another blog post. I make no promises about the future other than to say we'll update it the next time we update it. Love to all, The Sims









1 comment:

Missy said...

Fun! One of these years we will have to get our two families together and go vacationing. The kids would have a blast and so would we! Love, Missy