After leaving Goblin State Park the plan was to get to Capitol Reef, find a boondocking site and spend a day or 2 exploring. It’s a short 1 hour drive (2 in the Chief). The park is home to some unique features: petroglyphs, a rare natural land bridge and an orchard planted by early Mormon settlers…
(Heads up – the pictures are weird on this one. I’m experimenting with using Flickr to store the pictures so the posts load faster. I don’t have it all figured out yet.) With Halloween approaching, Goblin State Park seemed appropriate. I agree with the first guy who found it – they look more like…
“Why don’t we get to ride in a horse car? That’s way better! Can we trade the Chief for one?” Evie was particularly interested in the idea of a stage coach after we spent our last full afternoon in the greater Moab area on a hike around an old stage coach way station. Novel idea, but…
The kids and I took off for the local park this morning. Before we left, Evie was heartbroken to leave 2 new little friends. To be clear, those friends were already off on an adventure with their parents… they were gone. Not around. Goodbye until dinner time. But logic has no place in world of…
Jack kicked off the day by learning what happens when you step on a cactus. Made for an interesting lesson in biology and pain management. It was an aggressive little cactus too… it left a lot of needles in his foot. We pulled out everything we could see and used some hydrogen peroxide. He seems…
