We arrived in Escalante just in time to grab some dinner in town, which is always a welcome respite from the usual road trip fare of either PB&J sandwiches served from the cooler in the back seat or the ubiquitous "waffle house" fare which seems to dot every highway in the entire USA. How many waffle houses are there in the US, anyway? Must be a...

With Ramrod fixed we made it easily to Escalante. Once we found a supburb camp spot on the river and filling out the usual registration and depositing cash in a box, we took off for a waterfall after taping up my feet with huge amount of duct tape to try and stop more blisters. A little while in I decided the clouds looked certainly like rain an...