Ok People...today is Sunday, we left Colorado about 10.30 am after having one of those "you need to …

Ok People...today is Sunday, we left Colorado about 10.30 am after having one of those "you need to do this..and this when you get to Moab" from a friendly niebor....um yes that's where we are at Utah...a few minutes into the State and wow!! We have already drove past several interesting points like "hole in the rock" (apparently some guy built a house in-side a hole in a rock face) and a mountainous wall of Sand stone (of which Utah looks to be built on) with a hole inside big enough to drive a semi through that I will take pics of when we drive back over to visit stuff in that area with the 4x4...
Anyway the camp site is not too bad...awesome view in the front...can see mounds and mountains of this Sand stone ...kinda of a light orange color, the rear well hmmm just a sheer back drop of a rugged sand stone cliff face...tomorrow we are heading for the Arches..
But for now I need to tell you or blog the rest of last week...Thursday I think I need to start at..well not too far from the camp site there was a resevoir called McPhee.....just about the largest lake in Colorado, so we thought we'd put the Kayak in it....what fun...no it was too big to get all the way round but, the rock faces were a delight to see...myself amazed by the different colors and changing rock seams...3 to 4 hours of that and back to the coach to give it a damp dust off....
Friday, Telluride was the destination...about 65 miles North of the camp site over a very scenic mountain...with wonderful names like Lizardhead pass, justly because the top was shaped like a lizard head trying to touch the clouds...Telluride was a very expensive tourist attraction, boasting a free Gondola ride, this was fun especially when it stopped half way up the mountain for at least 20 minutes, (can you all remember what fun Rose thinks hights are....he he ) check out the pics when I upload them....after this we drove to a nearby water fall....Bridleveil falls...such a good name as you can see by the pics...we hiked up a zig zag rough rocky trail to get to the falls and, luckily at the top found a couple who asked for us to take thier pics and this favor as you can see was returned, I did take a pic of the bottom where we left the truck but there is no way you can really comprehend the rough sheer trail we had to walk to get to it....oh and apparently Tom Cruise has a house up there (somewhere) (he probably use's a helicoptor to get to it) and that was enough excercise for that day...except for eye exercise, on the way out of Telluride we spotted a herd of Deer..what a sight that was....you also need to know about the deer we are constantly seeing on the side of the road or even walking down it...so many, so awesome........
Saturday was the Hovenweep and Canyons of the ancient day...another trip to view the Pueblo indian house building but this time on the top edge of a canyon...the favorite sites being Hovenweep and Painted hand...Hovenweep was especially great if only because we got out of the truck and walked a 2 mile trail around the canyon top viewing different homes and towers as we went...temperatures being over 100 you can imagin the fun...WE ARE HERE DAMN IT UTAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeee Haaaaaaa
Kinda of a post script, Thursday morning I was watching TV and on came a program about the rail roads that were laid during and for the gold rush...so when the railroad companies went bust they all but left the tracks....now some guy had the idea of building a vehicle that could run on these narrow rails but with a V8 engine....so he did...and then painted it Silver....and apparently took fare paying customers on tours....after a while this was abandoned, untill an organisation took it apon themselves to renovate this um train if you will....and were successful in re building and putting it back on the track's, you might of heard about it ..."the Galloping Goose" of which there were at least 5 as this prog was about Galloping Goose #5...now believe it or not while driving through Delores to go to the McPhee Resevoir...spotted with delight this silver Galloping goose #5 on a lengh of rail out side it's Museum...this I was dissapointed in because I was hoping to see it run somewhere before leaving Delores....oh well I'm posting a pic now...you can not miss it....