Stary night Halloween

The snowbirds haven't arrived so it's pretty quiet. We sat outside and watched the stars appear as the sky darkened. Nice evening.

Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas. Quite a different city than 35yrs ago, when I was with JCPenney, when we shopped the store on Fremont. WOW what a change! The Fremont Experience is quite an experience. Topless with pasties and weirdoes outdoing weirdoes! And last night on the radio I heard a commercial with a woman asking men if their morning wood isn't what it used to be. She was urging them to see a particular counselor or sex therapist here in Las Vegas. I don't know as my jaw was on the floor and my brain wasn't accepting what my ears were hearing. But I know that the commercial ended with her saying something about being able to once again, "rise and shine." Goodbye Las Vegas!

Saw Pete Rose signing stuff at a sporting goods shop. That's how he makes money these days. And selling stuff about not being in "the Hall." Commercials too. Sorry looking dude.

Goodbye to the rocks

Left all the National Parks of Utah (and their rocks, rocks, rocks, and rocks) and now we're in Vegas for a week. Boy is it noisy in the city!

Zion National Park

A fabulous day at Zion Natl Park. We entered from the east to go thru the over one mile long DARK tunnel that opens up into the canyon. Spectacular!! There aren't very many people here at all and the weather just couldn't be any better. Beautiful, beautiful day.

North Rim

Not many people at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Quilt Walk

Panguitch, UT is 150 yrs old this year. Population has declined to 1500 but they have 16 motels, 4 campgrounds, and 3 bed & breakfasts. Panguitch means big fish and two things that stood out to us about this little town are the WIDE (really wide!) streets and the fact that most every house is made of brick and that there is a great variety of brick.
We had dinner at the Cowboy Smokehouse. Wow! And next door to the restaurant was an empty storefront with town history and list of events displayed in the window. There is a balloon festival in late June that looked big but my interest fell on the quilt walk...

Panguitch, UT

Interstate driving and then good highway from Moab to southwest Utah and a campground just north of Panguitch. The nights are down to 35/40 so the area is clearing out. The rate at Paradise RV Campground is just $13.95 with full hookups and free wifi!. The days are 70s so we'll tour this area a bit.

Needles Overlook in Canyonlands Nat'l Park

Our last day in Moab. We took the motorcycle to the Needles Overlook in Canyonlands National Park. Sitting on a rock looking at the view and all Sue can think about is the hole in the fence that she could slip through.

Canyonlands

Couldn't ask for better weather. The Canyonlands were beautiful. The heights were sure getting to Sue though. Her legs felt like electricity running up and down them.

SOLD the Sticks & Bricks

 

April 27, 2014 we placed a for sale by owner sign in the yard. We sold both of our SUVs, our 2002 Honda motorcycle and the motorcycle trailer. After our Estate Sale the end of June we still had a house full of STUFF. We worked long hours through July. Too many car loads to count went to Salvation Army. Sue sold over $700 through Lincoln facebook sites. We wore out a paper shredder. Sue shared a couple car loads of quilting and crafting supplies to friends and the Lincoln Quilters Guild. We finally emptied the house that we designed and built mostly from our own labor.
The first week of August we put the house on the market with a realtor.
October 8, 2014 we closed on the "Sticks & Bricks" and now are REALLY full time. Happy dance!

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A friend told us about a book she has in her daycare that is very appropriate to share...

Huff & Puff Have Too Much Stuff by Tish Rabe
Two train engines are pulling lots of stuff and can't get around very well. They end up giving all of the stuff away. The book ends with "So now there goes just Huff & Puff. "We don't need much stuff," said Huff. "We have you & me and that's enough!"

Utah!

 
 

Sunday, October 5, we left Grand Junction. We had never been to Utah TOGETHER :)

 
 
 





 On Monday we got on the motorcycle and drove from Moab to Potash along the Colorado River. On our return we stopped to see what people were looking at and saw the ancient art up on the rocks. Also saw a spider almost as big as my hand!

Friends, Barb & Bill, joined us at the OK RV Campground in Moab. Here's Terry watching Bonanza while waiting for them to arrive.
 

Grand Mesa National Forest

We put on our long johns and rode up Grand Mesa National Forest and then down to Delta and back to Grand Junction.
It was cold up there but the road was dry and the views were beautiful.

 



land of plateaus

 





The Visitors Center was closed but thankfully the restrooms had running water and were open.

 

 

 

 

Between Grand Mesa National Forest and Delta is the town of Cedaredge where we saw the Colorado Gold Distillery. We stopped and enjoyed a tour of the place along with free tastings of their whiskey, gin, vodka, and tequila.

 

 

Dinosaur National Monument

Rode north to Dinosaur Nat'l Monument Park today.

And we saw ancient petroglyphs.