Thursday, May 22, 2008

While we were riding the train the wind had picked up at the campground and a few small trees toppled. One fell where Frank had been parking the truck. The campground crew were so efficient that we could not even tell there had been a tree down.


We woke up to overcast skies, but no rain... so no problems dismantling camp. Frank had to rinse the truck... pollen overtook it at the parking lot for the train. Gray pollen.. almost looked like ashes.


As it turned out we made a good choice in campgrounds. The staff was friendly the place was neat and clean. We had first thought of going to United Campgrounds... in the listing they seemed to have more side-by-side campsites... otherwords your door is opening on your neighbors trailer than Lightner Creek Campground had listed. We rode past United Campground on the train ride. It looked liked a parking lot. Lightner Creek campground has grass, trees, creek and a bit more space between sites. Lightner Creek has a nice playground, a pool and a dog park (with hurdles and a balance board... looked like a see-saw). The prices in their supply store looked reasonable at a glance. We left at 9:30 (GA Time).


We missed our turn in Cortez, Colorado to highway 491. We decided it would be about the same distance if we turned around or kept on highway 160 and picked up 191.. we did the latter and stopped to see Four Corners. It is the slab with flags around it showing where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet. There are pretty views from there. There is sort of a flea market there with the Indians selling their goods. Frank bought me two pairs of earrings. I like the smaller earrings... one pair is made from colorful stone and the other pair is silver eagles. Excellent workmanship in both pair. The colorful stone was made by the young lady's parents and she made the eagles. She said her nickname is Muzzy and her real name is Katherine.


We stopped in White Mesa Utah for gas at $4.46 a gallon.


We stopped at Blanding Utah at the visitors center to eat our sandwiches. We went inside the center and asked a couple of questions and they gave us a bag of goodies (disposalble razors, gum, protein bars and such.


We saw a mule deer standing by the road not far past Blanding. A little further down the road Frank saw a dog herding some cows. By time I looked the dog disappeared. I think it was my day for disappearing dogs. I saw one walking by the road earlier and it disappeared behind one of the brushes and I didn't see it come out... maybe I was seeing things :-D


We arrived at Moab Rim Campground at 4:30 (GA Time).


I think I called Mama a little before 5:30 (GA Time). Afterward we went to take a shower and then the wind kicked up high. I had to close the trailer windows. I think it was about 60 degrees, but it was a bit warm in the trailer. It cooled down about 10 degrees after the wind started shaking the trailer. There were a few sprinkles of rain during the night, but nothing enough to wet the red clay here.


We looked at the weather on the computer and they are calling for a 60% chance of rain tomorrow... so a good day to do laundry.


We traveled 247 miles today.