Sept. 12, 2010 Riverside Oasis RV Park Moab, Utah

Today we went for breakfast here at the campground. They served breakfast yesterday and today with hash-browns, eggs, sausage, pancakes and coffee, all for $5. So I guess we had our usual Sunday morning breakfast, we just missed our usual breakfast gang. We sat at a table with a young man who said he works as a tour guide. He asked where we were going from here and told us several things we should see at each place. I guess our own tour guide, Larry, is doing well because he knew about all the things this guy mentioned.

We went about 45 miles south of here today to see Newspaper Rock and than to drive thru another section of the Canyonlands National Park. This was the section called Needles. We drove thru there in a couple of hours. It too, is much undeveloped and most of the named rocks and cliffs were pretty much like we had seen yesterday. Beautiful, but I guess we’re getting jaded because we weren’t as excited about seeing them as before. The battery in our camera went dead shortly before we left there, but I think we did get a few pictures.

Newspaper Rock

Wooden Shoe


Driving thru town I saw some beautiful copper whirligigs for the yard. I admired them, but said they were probably too expensive, suggesting they would no doubt cost a few hundred dollars. We drove in there this afternoon and looked around a little. I was right, they were too expensive, the smallest starting at $550. I did not get one.

It’s kind of warm here today with temps in the mid 80’s. At night though, it gets down to the mid 50’s. We need the little electric heater on first thing in the morning, and then by late afternoon we need a/c.