Monday, June 14th we broke camp from the Grand Canyon, and headed for Dead Horse State Park, where we were thinking there were showers... NOT! Remember, we hadn't showered since the 10th at Lake Mead. We were starting to really need it! Dead Horse State Park is in Utah. It overlooks the Colorado River 2000 feet below in canyon country like the Grand Canyon but on a bit smaller scale. Legend has it, that this is a place where people used to drive wild mustangs, corral them with the narrow cliff and fence, choose the ones they wanted, and leave the rest to die. It is a pretty spectacular site. There was not much shade there, so thank goodness it was not terribly hot! It was about a 6 hour drive to from the Grand Canyon to Dead Horse. The kids love long drives because they get as much screen time as they like. I need to take a photo of the front passenger seat situation! We have an inverter that will charge up to three things at once, plus the GPS which plugs into one lighter, and an MP3 player which plugs into another. My job, when I am not driving, is to rotate, which things are being charged, and since we had no hookups at the Grand Canyon, everything needed charging at once. We had Eric with us, which added a few more devices to be charged. My method was to get each thing to about 40% charged, and then rotate to another item.
Tuesday, June 15th, we headed out to Arches. We went to most of the arches that were within a Colin-type hiking distance. Even then, there was some Complaining. Our boys LOVED to scramble on the rocks and into the arches whenever they could. It is truly amazing how these things formed! We watched a short video in the visitor's center that explained it.
Wednesday, June 16th we spent a short time in the morning driving through Canyonlands with a few photo op stops. Then we broke down camp and were on the road again. This time we were headed for Mesa Verde.
Keep the blogs coming. The writing is great, as are the pictures.
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