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10-14-02 We get up and eat the buffet at the casino again. Don has to take the motor home to the shop for repairs. I ride with Peg and Jack follows. Jack and I go to visit Mrs. Morey. She has gotten much older looking. She is so sad to have lost Keith at Christmastime. We find Peg and Don at the campground in Bernalillo. Peg and I go to the grocery store and buy some fried chicken and other things to make for supper. We play cards after supper till midnight. 10-15-02 We eat breakfast in the motor home. Peg and I do the wash while we wait for the sound system to be fixed on theri motor home. We eat and shop at Old Town. Jack and I might come back to buy a couple strings of red chilies (ristas) on our way back home. We go back and play cards till midnight. 10-16-02 We eat breakfast with Peg and Don and leave for the Grand Canyon. We arrive there around 4pm. However, there are only a few expensive rooms left. We check back at the Bright Angel Lodge and manage to get a cabin room that eveyone else wanted also. It is pretty primitive but clean. We walk along the canyonfs rim. We meet a man from Holland and talk to him about the demise of the USA. We see a few deer on the grass, quite tame. We eat supper in the cafeteria at Maswik Lodge. We take a shuttle ther and walk back. We snuggle in in our cabin. 10-17-02 We had intentions of hiking the canyon, but there are no openings and we are not ready for it. So when it was rainy and cold out, we decide we will leave and perhaps come back on our way back. So we take off for Moab, UT. It is a gorgeous drive up there. We arrive around 5pm. We stop at the visitors center and they suggest a mountain bike trail for us. We check into the Sleep Inn. We eat supper at the Slickrock Cafe, which wasnft that great. We want to use there internet service, but there are no computers available. So we go back to the motel and go to bed. 10-18-02 We get up and eat the continental breakfast which isnft too great sine they donft have any fruit or cereal. Oh well! Then we head for the Klondike Bluff Trail north of town. Jack pulls a muscle in his leg shortly into the ride. He decides he should turn around. He takes some Advil and keeps going. He makes it all the way-I think it was 8 miles out. We hike at the end of the trail and see the edges of Arches National Park. It is lots of fun coming back since it is mostly downhill. It is really different riding compared to Colorado. There is lots of sand and rock. You actually ride on top of the rocks. We buy sme groceries and eat lunch at the hotel. Then I drive us through Arches National Park. We did a couple short hikes there. It is really a pretty interesting park. So ends another day of our trip. We donft eat supper for some reason. 10-19-02 We head for Canyonlands National Park after another gdelicioush breakfast. We just have time to see the north part of the park. We went a couple of short hikes. We go for a walk of the town. There are so many mountain bikers in town. We will have to come back to this area to do some more biccling and sightseeing. I do a load of wash. We arenft speaking to each other too much agian for some gunknownh reason. Maybe it is from spending gtooooooh much time together. What will we do for the rest of our lives when we will spend so much time together? Time will ell if we can weather it. 10-20-02 We hit te road after our last great breakfast of toasted English muffin. We are on our way to Vegas. We travel through some more gorgeous country. Most of the country we travel through is just as pretty as the two national parks we just toured. We stop at the Nevada welcome center to see where to stay in Vegas. But we decide to just go there and find a place. I try to call a couple of people along the way but I just get cut off so I give up. We arrive in Vegas and get a hotel room. Itis nothing to write home about, but it is cheap. We go for a walk of the Strip and go in a few casinos. We only look around and donft put a dime in their machines. Things are not going well for us here. I guess it just isnft our thing. We have even discussed heading home. |