Day 12 of 16—Petroglyphs and Laundry

Finally a “chill” day. I asked Dave a few days ago when we were going to have a chill day where we didn’t have to get up early and be on the road at 9am. I was mostly joking. His answer was if I want to chill I’m on the wrong tour—we are going to experience as much as we can in the time we have. Okay, fair enough…I can always come back and take my time later! But this day actually qualified as a chill day in my book. 

We broke camp at 9:05 (the new people are getting better!) and Dave took us to a special stop on the highway that has Indian Writing on the sandstone walls. After pictures we took off for Moab again, with the promise of free time for shopping, internet, laundry, and showers (finally!). I got more done on this blog finally! But there’s never enough time, so I settled for getting up to day 6 on the blog while the laundry washed, then took a $6 shower at a nearby campground, walking distance to downtown. Back on the bus we headed for a group campground called Goosenecks State Park (Teec Nos Pos according to my phone GPS) on a gorgeous mesa above the San Juan River Canyon (feeder to the Colorado). We were only a stone’s throw from the Arizona border.

The vista from this cliff was so peaceful and inspiring, people sat at the edge for about 3 hours after dinner (veggie chili and tossed green salad) until the last of the light was gone. They were still sitting there when I went to my tent. The sunrise promises to be even better over the red rocks to the east.