Moab, Goblins & Capital Reef

It's only been a couple days but so much has happened!  We finished our stay in Moab, by taking a jetboat trip down the river.  It was great scenery and we got to see Jeeps making their way on a cliff in an extreme tour.

Then we went to a dinner and Western show - which included a shootout!  It was great fun, good food (although Carole & I are going to swear off baked beans) and good singing.  We got to sing along to "They call the Wind Mariah" and "Ghost riders in the Sky" ... what could be better!!

The next day was our first caravan day and Carole & I were selected as the "weather gals".  We have to start each travel morning with a funny weather report on our CB radios (as if we don't have enough to do!).  As we got ready to go, wouldn't you know we had a short in the electrical hookup to the tow car and had to have help from the Tailender (the couple assigned to bring up the rear of the caravan and help out) - he fixed it and we got on our way.  Ours wasn't the most serious, one couple had a flat, and one RV totally broke down and had to be towed - we hope they will be able to join us later.  Our first stop was at the John Wesley Powell River Museum.  He was the first to explore the Colorado River and map it.  He opened this area for others to follow. 

The next stop was at the Goblins Valley State Park.  These rock formations remind you of Disney characters, gnomes or goblins.  One even looks like ET.

At the end of that long day we had a catered dinner and a talk by a professor, who was the director of the Anasazi Museum.  It was an informative talk and very entertaining - he was so funny in how he presented all the information, that I will remember a lot. 

Today we toured Capital Reef National Park.  Once again Carole and I took hundreds of pictures of incrediable rock formations and vistas, but we also did 2 interesting things.  We hiked for over an hour in the Grand Wash, which is a riverbed that was still slightly muddy from the last rain.  It was incredible to see the rock formations from such a low point, also to see and go into caves and to pick out rocks that "spoke" to us and leave them as our good luck "totems" in holes in the rock. 

Then we drove on a dirt road to an overlook called Goosenecks Point to look down at the Sulfur River and out at the largest vista with the best colors we've seen so far.