After
the usual breakfast in the room, the Hotel does offer free??Breakfast but it
seems they give you a five dollar voucher for use in the Pancake house
providing you spend more than ten dollars. So not for us at all.
Our
first visit is to the Canyon Lands National Park where we arrived about 0945
and the drive to the main sites of interest is about 22 miles, not small parks
these. The mountains and rock formations was truly amazing and we have lots of
photos to bore you with. We had to walk to two of the best viewing points, one
a simple quarter of a mile with some slope but the second walk took us an hour there
and back and it was very rocky and with gravel underfoot and quite steep in places
and so a little difficult for the old man whilst the younger wife led the way.
We had a
picnic lunch and then went to ‘The Arches’ State Park and we spend about three
hours there looking at the arches created out of stone and hewn by the wind and
rain.
During
both park visits we met some very friendly people which added to the interest.
We returned to Moab and checked in to the Ramada across the road from the Best
Western who wanted an extra $ 80.00 per night more than we paid during the
first night and so we moved across to the Ramada which turned out to be a slightly
better hotel. We had dinner in a bar/restaurant
about five minutes’ walk and had a very meal but even in this small town they
are suggesting a tip of 20% which seems to me to be quite a lot. Anyway I used
a lower amount as I think that this amount of tipping is too much.
Back to
the room and upload some photos which are taking an absolute eternity due to
the very slow internet speeds. At last check it said it would take eight hours
to upload 150 photos.
And so
to bed as tomorrow we travel east to a place called Montrose, Colorado where we
will then make a decision on out next destination based upon the weather as the
snow is beginning to appear and the temperature is dropping and we would like a
bit of heat somewhere. We have thought of going to Colorado Springs but the
weather outlook there is not great.
And so
to bed as tomorrow we travel east to a place called Montrose, Colorado where we
will then make a decision on out next destination based upon the weather as the
snow is beginning to appear and the temperature is dropping and we would like a
bit of heat somewhere. We have thought of going to Colorado Springs but the
weather outlook there is not great.
