Arches this morning, Colorado tonight

Hi all - we are now settled with tents pitched here in the Rockies near Georgetown, CO. What a beautiful campground too! This morning we broke camp at the Moab Valley RV Park and went to Arches National Parks for the morning. What an amazing place! The Colorado River is at flood stage and watching it all along I-70 has been fascinating - in places it was right up to the railroad tracks and had even pulled power lines down with the current. The best word I can think of to describe the raging water is "violent"!

Here are a few pictures from the last day:



This would be a picture of "Nowhere" - where were yesterday on the way to Moab. While this picture isn't the exact one (the road is too nice...) we had a real adventure when the road through the desert went from pavement to dirt and we had to turn around. The next photo is at a viewpoint as we climbed and climbed in the vans through the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. I was most impressed by the civil engineering that must have been needed to create the roads that clung to the edges of the mountains, switchback after switchback. (They must have used mountain goats for surveyors.)






Nick's 13th birthday was celebrated last night. Tomorrow we celebrate Angel's.


Tents were not needed last night!


Only .75 mile, but what a climb to the higher viewpoint of "Delicate Arch".


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Location:Chief Hosa's campground, near Georgetown, CO