m&m On The Road Again: 7-8-2010 Arches Natl Park & Colorado River Byway

Came up north in Utah to visit another red rock canyon at Arches National Park. This was neat because you can hike to the arches, not too far or to high for most of them, and climb around in them. We stopped in Moab to gas up prior to the park, lots of bike and raft shops here, the Colorado River runs through town, lots of adventure hikers, bikers and rafters in this town. Huge tourist draw, Gee... it seems we were drawn there also...

I have no idea how this rock stays up there, it's called balance rock.

The south arch at double arch.

If anyone ever wondered just how big the blades are on a wind turbine, the pic below does it some justice. Amazing when you consider that there are 3 of these on each wind turbine. Saw quite a few in transport in Utah, last huge batch of windmills we saw was in Iowa.

When we left Moab and Arches we took highway 128, a two lane that follows the Colorado River north. We had better scenery along this stretch of highway in variety and colors than we had all day in Zion. What a great drive, and fairly flat, as it followed the river almost all the way and we crossed it once. A great pic with the sun setting on the rock.