Moab, Utah

We arrived in Moab last Saturday and settled in at Portal RV Campground. Moab is a mecca for bicyclists, Jeeps and other all-terrain vehicles, with many trails in the area.

 

We watched the Broncos-Bengals football game on Sunday. After the game, we went downtown Moab and wandered through several gift, sports and tee-shirt shops. Then we headed to the Moab Brewery for dinner. 

 

We visited Arches National Park for the first time yesterday. The park is often very congested with traffic between Memorial Day and Labor Day. However, the park wasn’t very crowded yesterday and it was a beautiful day out. We began at the Visitor’s Center and saw an excellent film on how the landscape and arches are formed. There are over 2,000 arches in the park.

 

We enjoyed our stay in Moab and we’re headed out tomorrow for Las Vegas for a month-long stay. We’re getting the hail damage fixed on our Ford F-150 and it’ll be in the body shop for 3-4 weeks. 

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Lake Powell 2016

We spent two weeks at Navajo State Park, near Arboles, CO, and thoroughly enjoyed our stay there, including Labor Day weekend. We watched many campers and boats come and go for the last big weekend of the summer.

We enjoyed going to the Saturday Farmers Market in Durango to buy locally grown produce, especially the tomatoes. We also made a couple of visits to the Durango Diner and Julie ordered her favorite, “The Cure”.

Our friends Vince & Lisa from Westcliffe, CO joined us at Navajo the Tuesday after Labor Day. My sister Marcia and brother-in-law from Winchester, VA also joined us the following Thursday. We enjoyed several awesome sunsets during our stay there.

All of us left together on Saturday morning, Sept 10^th, for the drive to Page, AZ and Lake Powell. On the way, we always stop in Kayenta, AZ at the Burger King because they have a large RV parking lot. This Burger King is special as it has interesting displays about the World War II Navajo Code Talkers.

We arrived safely at Wahweap Campground in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for a two week stay. Our friends Kris & Jan arrived from Albuquerque on Sunday. On Tuesday, Sept 13^th, the four of us guys went on a guided fishing trip. Together we caught 14 stripers, enough for a good fish fry.

Marcia made peach cobbler as dessert for my birthday after dinner on the 14^th.

Last Friday we visited the Upper Antelope Slot Canyon on the Navajo Reservation outside of Page, with Vince & Lisa. It was our fifth visit but we thoroughly enjoy the different colors of the sandstone as the sunlight illuminates it during different times of the day. We were lucky enough to see a sun beam shine into the canyon.

Kris & Jan celebrated their 20^th wedding anniversary last Saturday night and we enjoyed dinner together at the Wahweap Resort restaurant.

On Monday all of us, in our three boats, headed 40-miles up lake to the Dangling Rope Marina for ice cream. We enjoy this trip every year to get out and see the beauty of Lake Powell with its large bays, canyons, and many red rock formations.

 

We left Page, AZ and drove to Moab, UT today with Mike & Marcia for a 4-night stay to visit Arches National Park and explore the Moab area. We drove through Monument Valley on our way to Moab and thought of John Wayne and all the westerns that were filmed there.

      
Steve & Julie Cornelius