{"id":185,"date":"2021-09-13T02:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T02:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2021-09-13T02:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T02:34:49","slug":"day-nineteen-moab-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Day nineteen, Moab, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This day was quite an adventure. There were no group activities, so we took advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leila did something neither of us have ever done, she went on a four hour ATV ride through the backcountry. She went places we couldn\u2019t go see\u2026rock formations that once were on the ocean floor, fossils, and native wall art. It was bumpy, dusty and hot, and she loved every minute. She\u2019s already plotting an outing back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, I went on a photography outing that\u2019s been planned for months. A local guide picked me up at 6:15 AM, and we went out to Canyonlands NP and Dead Horse Point SP to catch the morning light. I learned some new tricks, and certainly saw some angles at Mesa Arch I would not have found on my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan was to take a mid day break, then get back together at 5:30 to get twilight and Milky Way photos. This plan had a flaw\u2026the weather conspired against us. Brian took me over what may be the roughest road I\u2019ve ever been on, but the payoff was wonderful; we ended up at Marlboro Point, named that because numerous cigarette ads were shot there. But\u2026clouds covered up the quarter moon we were counting on lighting up the rocks. A cloud covered up the sky where the Milky Way would be. And\u2026as the evening went along there were busy lightning storms to the east and west of us. We waited past sunset, but finally gave up. I enjoyed the day immensely, but it didn\u2019t turn out quite as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more free day on day twenty\u2026we plan to go back into Arches NP and explore places we didn\u2019t see on the bus tour. And, there will be a driver\u2019s meeting. We leave for Cortez, Colorado on Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She\u2019s ready to go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rider in her environment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The gooseneck of the Colorado River at Dead Horse Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lightning on the horizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlboro Point. Picture a rugged cowboy on horseback, with a manly smoke. The rock in the foreground is Raven\u2019s Beak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This day was quite an adventure. There were no group activities, so we took advantage. Leila did something neither of us have ever done, she went on a four hour ATV ride through the backcountry. She went places we couldn\u2019t go see\u2026rock formations that once were on the ocean floor, fossils, and native wall art. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}