Moab Day One

*picture heavy post ahead*

We decided to take a little trip to Moab this weekend

to try out Frank's new wheels.

I'll start out with the quote of the day:

"Well, I only hit one tree today!"

We went to Arches National Park

and did some off-roading using a book of trails that Frank got.

The trails we did this first day were:

Tower Arch and Eye of the Whale Arch
(I think the roads have other names but I can't remember them right now)

We did a bit of driving around the park first.

Wow, that place is amazing!

Then we headed out onto our "off road" trail.

It started out as basically a sandy road

but soon we turned and saw

a steep hill made up of rocks, boulders and a bit of dirt.

I would never, in my right mind, call it a road.

That was the beginning of our first off road experience.

And it was fun!

And beautiful.

And at times a little nerve wracking.

And as Frank was pointing out some gorgeous scene in the distance

he did, indeed, hit a tree.

A smallish tree.

and he sort of side swiped it more than rammed right into it...

(that's because I yelled)

First scratch-we got that over with.

In the middle of our trek

we got out and hiked to the Tower Arch.

We had a great time hiking all around

getting sort of lost

climbing over boulders

and into crevices

Me taking a picture of Frank taking my picture

A very small crevice! too small it turned out...

until we did eventually arrive at the arch.

We made it to the Arch!

Frank trying to get a good shot

From inside the arch

We were quite tired at the end of the day.

Before we left,

 we went into the visitors center to look around

and when we sat down to see their little 15 minute movie about the arches..

we both fell asleep!

So we decided to call it a day at that point!

However once we got back to Green River, where our hotel was,
we decided to go out on a short, easy trip to see
the Crystal Geyser.

It's supposed to be kind of cool,
and easy to find.

Of course we started out at dusk
and it was soon very dark.

We drove on some surprisingly rough roads
and...
never found it!

Frank was beside himself and didn't want to give up.

We did enjoy some AMAZING stars out there in the middle of no where.

No camera...so no pictures.
But it definitely made me want to go back out in the boonies to
enjoy those stars again sometime.

It was a nice end to the day
(other than the frustration Frank felt for never finding the geyser, that is)