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... of us in the morning to let us know if their truck would start. The plan was that they were going to call my cell phone (somehow I was still getting service out there) from a satellite phone at 7AM, and if their truck started they'd meet us at our cabin at noon. If their truck DIDN'T start, we would have to drive 2 hours to their cabin to jump them, then we'd all have to drive back to our cabin to unload all the boards and cement and stuff. <br ...

What prompted my interest in visiting Natural Bridges was not so much the natural bridge formations as the fact they are the primo dark sky park of all the national parks, a Class 1 on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale. I have always been tempted to visit the dark places. Gordon, the astronomy ranger at the Natural Bridges, gave an evening talk about many things: about teaching, the National ...

Here where you are standing The dinosaurs did a dance The Indians told a story Now it has come to pass The Indians had a legend The Spaniards lived for gold The white man came and killed them But they haven't really gone We live in the city of dreams We drive on this highway of fire Should we awake and find it gone Remember this, our favorite town ~ City of Dreams, David Byrne Listening to Talking Heads as we left ...

We are SO behind on our blog! I really hate getting behind like this because then, when we finally get around to doing an entry, it's been a month later and we've forgotten a lot of what happened. We're really going to try to be better about it in the future...<br> So our trip to Natural Bridges (a MONTH ago!) turned out to be VERY eventful. I think most of you already know what happened, but I'm just going to tell the story as if you ...

Oops! It's already been a week since we went to Natural Bridges and we are just now writing the entry. I'm not quite sure why it took us so long to get to it, but now we're trying to finish it up really fast so we can do our entry for today's adventure! Well, last Sunday was the last day before Silas was starting work, so we were trying to figure out something to go and do/see. The weather here wasn't that great and it was really windy so we were ...

Met a German couple (kind of squatted on their campsite) and they took me for a hike around two of the three most famous/ largest bridges in North America. It was a nice 5.6 mile hike with a BOTANIST. I went on a hike with a freakin man that knew ...

66 miles and 7 hours on the saddle. Probably my toughest day yet because Im was going in and out of canyons and my thermometer reached 98.5 degrees which I dont believe but it was warm. The ride out to Natural Bridges was amazing because there was nothing not even cars. Shared a campsite with a German ...

... a slight detour from the main highways visitor numbers are quite low year round. It is really a shame that this is the case as the bridges are quite spectacular formations shaped by water erosion. You are no longer allowed to climb onto the bridges but the views from below are sufficiently grand, especially if you're using a wide angle lens! Photography though can be a bit tricky, especially since most of the photos you will take will be upwards towards the bridges, and depending ...

... and the deep water of the lake, it is a water sports haven. Deb read that as many as three million people use Lake Powell for water sports each year. This is borne out by the huge number of boat trailers parked in the lots surrounding the marina. In addition, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of houseboats, both privately owned and for rent on the lake. The marina where we rented out modest nineteen foot speedboat had houseboats for rent from a mere 36 feet up to a ...

... set out from the campground and had traveled about three miles, when I saw a huge dust cloud over the next rise. As we crested the rise, I saw what had created the dust cloud. A car had crossed over the center line, hit a passenger van, and come to rest in the ditch, facing the opposite direction from which it had come. We pulled up behind the van and I immediately pulled out my cell phone and called 911. Cell phone reception in this area is spotty at best, but I was ...