We all woke up nice and early and dehydrated from our canoe trip. It was Kenita and Lindas last day with us here in Moab, so we all decided we should go explore Arches National Park. We rolled out of the RV and went straight for Love Muffin to have some pre-Arches breakfast. Kenita found this restaurant on yelp when she was researching this trip and as it turns out, it was fantastic! Danielle and I shared a breakfast burrito and a breakfast panini. The coffee was fantastic too. I'm pretty sure I could eat breakfast here everyday for the rest of our trip. Then with our bellies full, off we went to Arches NP to see some big awesome… arches.
The first formation we stopped at wasn't even really an arch, it was the Balanced Rock. It's basically this large rock formation that's standing a good 60 feet up on top of a smaller formation below. How it happens? The larger rock is made of a stronger sandstone than the lower rock, so the lower one erodes quicker than the top rock.
Next we saw the Double Arch which is two, two, two arches in one. If Arches National Park is ever looking for corporate sponsorship then McDonald's will be first in line for this one!
Then, we hiked to see the most famous of all arches, the Delicate Arch (the arch in the headline). It truly is amazing. It's this twisting arch that really seems like it shouldn't belong where it is. I think the description at the trailhead said something about it, 'seeming like it jutted out from a lunar plateau,' which is pretty well said.
We saw some other stuff, lesser arches, cool rock formations, but I won't bore you with any of those.. I'll get to my second favorite sight of the trip.. Landscape Arch. It's really amazing that it's still standing. In 1991, a large chunk broke off of the right hand side of it while people were there. This is the arch you shouldn't miss if you ever find yourself in Arches NP. It's gorgeous and it might not be around for long. It's a Limited Time Offer Arch.
After seeing all these arches we were famished, and Kenita and Linda needed to get to Grand Junction to catch their flight, so we all headed on over to this awesome little milk shake and hamburger stand called Milt's that's near our RV park. Every time we drove by this place it was packed! We got milkshakes, burgers and sandwiches; all of which we're great. They opened in 1954 and they've got a really fun atmosphere. When you step up to order from the counter, if someone else's food is ready they ask you to call out their name.. so when I got to the window I had to yell out, 'Steve your order is up!' I did it so well they offered me a job. We hurried through our lunches so that Kenita and Linda could hit the road, said our goodbyes and went back to our home.
I know this post is already really long. But a story isn't a good story without also telling the other side of things. The crappy side of things. Bambi wouldn't have been a story unless that hunter hadn't killed Bambi's mother. Living in an RV is awesome. Danielle and I were just talking about how we didn't miss living in a house and how great this kind of life is. Then, 2 minutes later we got one of our slide-out's stuck. Which is a really bad thing because when your slide-out is extended, you can't move. By the way, a slide-out is a part of the RV that slides out to give you more room inside the RV. We were also pretty full with our holding tanks (dish water and umm poo/pee water) and needed to dump them. We had no electricity besides the power from our generator which is noisy and has to be turned off at night so you don't annoy the neighbors. Oh, and the internet was really bad where we were parked. We could remedy all of this very easily if our RV was parked back in our usual spot. But it wasn't, we couldn't get the slide-out back in and couldn't move to our spot. So we were stuck. We called mechanics in Moab and learned that none of whom fix slide-out's. We tried everything, I even climbed below the RV and tried manually retracting the slide-out. Nothing worked. The next morning we were getting pretty worried about how we were going to fix this. We decided to give it one last try and low and behold, the slide-out retracted. Later we realized that it must have been because our batteries had gotten very low. When we went on our canoe trip and left the RV I accidentally forgot to switch a couple things in the control panel and ran the batteries down pretty far. When we got back and couldn't get the slide-out back in we started running a generator to power the RV which eventually charged the batteries over night and that's why we were able to get the slide-out back in. It was a tough lesson but we'll never do that again!!
Tommy
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