Friday - circle tour

Today we took a really nice morning drive around a back road loop in the area. First was about 11 miles of scenery along the Colorado River.

Then we had a choice of continuing along the river for one loop, or heading up into the hills for a different loop. We headed for the hills.

We came to some cliffs about 1500 ft high, driving up the valley. Pretty soon we were looking down on those same cliffs - it was quite a climb. This isn't a park area, it's just a road in the Moab area. Our pictures just don't do the scenery justice, especially downsized as they are here.

This afternoon it clouded over, did some rumbling and flashing off in the hills, then it actually started raining in Moab. We could pretty near hear the locals cheering! We were browsing the town at the time, and have been back in the trailer since mid-afternoon, it's raining just enough to keep us in. It didn't get so warm today, barely up to 20C, and at 6:30 pm it's still 20. The rain is the first we've had this trip that hasn't been a travel day anyway, so no problem.