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Heading for the Finish Line

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 Thursday, June 10 for Thursday - Monday, May 20 - 24, 2021 On the Thursday moring, we left our hotel in Moab, Utah, and headed towards Colorado. We thought we had seen the Arches, but found MORE arches as we left town. The pictures below were NOT in the Park! This one is called Wilson Arch. Do you see the climber/rappeller in the upper center of the picture below? Randy caught that picture. Does anyone else see a turtle, or some other creature in the formation below? After stopping a couple times for the pictures above, we hit the road for Colorado. We drove a few hours, and in about three hours, found Mesa Verde National Park (opening picture). We had been told by fellow travelers that this was a great Park, but we weren't sure what to expect. After all the desert we had been in, we found greenery! (As I remember!) We traveled up the mesa, heading for what is called the Mesa Top Loop. As an aside, I have to say looking at old archeological digs is NOT my favorite thing, but Randy
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Changing Direction on the Fly -- Arches and Canyonlands

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Friday, June 4 for Wednesday, May 19, 2021 It is understood that I have fallen behind in posting, and we are so close to the end. All the procedures I had been following to move pictures around so they could be imported began failing me near the end. so some, what I consider good, pictures will not appear, but I hope there are still some good ones. We started the day after breakfast and departing the hotel to Arches National Park. Let me say here, I wanted Arches to be my favorite of the Parks we visited, because I had seen so many wonderful pictures around that Park. We were really only a few miles away, and we got there 10:30-ish, and the Park was already full, and the line went out to the road. We switched gears and decided to visit Canyonlands National Park, which we presumed would be smaller, and we might try Arches later in the day. We were very frustrated, because we didn't really understand how Canyonlands was laid out. We went back into the town of Moab and found a place t
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