May 7 Canyonlands National Park, UT

Pastor Ruben from the Moab Church is quite a guy. This is the second time he has acted as our own personal tour guide. Last time he told us about the dinosaur tracks around here. So this time he took us to see them. You have to have a 4-wheel drive to get up t here. He put water in the tracks so they would show up in the pictures better. This dino had about a 3' stride. And you can see several in a row. Isn't that neat? Ruben said in another place there are even better prints, but they are in a higher elevation, and still covered by snow.

Also, he is still young enough to be part boy. He did a donut in the sand on our way back down in the sand.

Ruben is such a neat guy. He even offered to let us use his car to tour the Canyonland National Park, while he was busy with other commitments.






Canyonland is basically across the highway from the Arches National Park. But what a difference! We were mostly on the mesa looking down, on the north side. Next time I want to do the south side, which will probably look like a totally different park too.

We climbed and hiked in a couple different places. We climbed about a half mile, one way to see the Upheaval Dome. It went up 200'. I took it slow and easy because of my knee and leg. We were almost to the top when this older couple passed us. She was using two walking sticks and just buzzed right by us. She's 74 years old, had one knee replaced and the other is worse than the first one was before she replaced it. I wanted to tell her that I really was 96, but decided that might be called an 'untruth'.

We drove on to the lookout point. It had a canyon rim walk that went for about a mile. We probably did half of that. There are no guard rails and the edge is an unforgiving ledge. It's just straight drop offs. Be sure to notice those scary pictures.

The view was fantastic. The gaping holes boggles the mind. It was hard to walk away at the end of the day, because everything was so neat. I took no less then 300 pictures. Thank goodness for digital cameras. It was very hard to cut it down to a somewhat reasonable number to share with you.

We went back to Moab for our second meal, picked up the truck and hurried on to Grand Junction, CO for the weekend.

Our friends, Ron and Viki brought their second car over to the motel (at 9:00 P.M.), so we could have transportation to Church tomorrow. Don't we just have the neatest friends ever?