Saturday, April 26, 2014

Aspen to home

main street, Aspen CO...
you can ski here, too
elk poop everywhere
looking south: ajax, highlands, buttermilk

susan poaching
the Amana Communities: 19th cent. communitarian sect, invented amana refrigerators.  no kidding.
considering avocado sandwich for lunch 
Marshall MI 
Dark Horse Brew Pub
the pub also runs a cycle shop
Michigan hotrod
our friends Gary & Cindy live in Olivet MI...
with 5 dogs, an obese cat named "the babies", and 3 large boys
Gary's a sculptor
8000 miles later

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Moab to Aspen

6:10 AM - off to Canyonlands
it's a remote and lonely place
kitchen, day 28
breakfast at Canyonlands
we forgot tea mugs
moss
they're everywhere...
"the mesa arch"
trying to ignore the 2000' drop
Sue contemplates the day's strategic footwear
sunset over the Green River


  another cold night, on to Aspen
 Colorado Hotel, Glenwood Springs...

... and the springs
made it to Aspen in time for sunset

Arches

it was Jeep Safari week in Moab
there were thousands of these
ozymandias
"the balancing rock"
how did this fall off?
a few of the 2000 arches in Arches


"the double arch"
moving to Reno, back of the wagon filled with plants 

lunch at Arches, 39 degrees
sometime in the 1600's

"the delicate arch"

slickrock
"the landscape arch"
 in 1991 it dropped an 180 ton slab and almost crushed a group of arch viewers
the La Sal mountains hit 12,000' and are constantly visible
utah juniper, ~ 500 years old

the sandstone walls are decorated with patterns


the "petrified dunes"