A few days in Moab

Hi. I'm home, sick as a dog with a cold or mild flu-y something. I intend to grow a taproot into my purple couch, with ice water, tylenol and orange juice blended with vanilla yogurt all in reach. And a large stack of Blockbuster movies.

In the meantime, here are some pictures. Adisa, Kristina, Miko the dog and I went to Utah. Kristina had the flu, so she was in the hotel most of the time. Adisa and I (and Miko) hiked Negro Bill's Canyon on Monday (yes, it's called that). Then we did Hunter Canyon and some 4x4 bumbling around in the backcountry around there, which is the area underneath where people drive up and snap photos from Dead Horse Point.

We arrived Sunday and went to Island in the Sky. Kristina is from Germany, and so I went for the ridiculously fabulous view first:





And Arches is a necessary thing for all first time visitors to the high desert of the American west to see, so we did. I have a million photos of Arches itself, and so I didn't take make new ones. I'll post the handful that I did do later in the week. I was just more interested in places deeper in the desert I hadn't seen yet. It was a windy evening. This is us:



These are a jumble from the two hikes Adi, Miko and I did Monday and Tuesday. More photos with commentary when I'm back on my feet.

Great, great days. Tons of fun.















I must report that Moab now has a Starbucks. And we stopped to get some before we started our hike, creating these unnatural images:



(YES, we packed them out, YES we apologized to the few hikers we met along Negro Bill's Canyon trail (there were no hikers nor SBUX along Hunter Canyon)...and we felt the shame of our addiction.)



I shoulda been shot. Really.


....Right now, I'm ill and just want to watch Chinese movies and make myself keep drinking fluids. I have new and gorgeous canyon country photos that I will share soon.