View from our site--reservoir is beyond those trees

Amazing drive through all this white sandstone

Anasazi Dwelling

Escalante State Park, Escalante, UT: Mostly cloudy this morning. We just hung around our site all morning waiting to leave for my hair appointment. Our site is pretty nice. Our living area faces a reservoir which is hidden by large sage brush and cottonwood trees…which is just as well because it’s really low right now. But we have a lot of privacy and can’t really see any other sites. And the sage brush gives off the most wonderful aroma. Got my hair cut and then headed further down Rt. 12 to Boulder, UT, and the Anasazi Museum there. I couldn’t imagine this area could get any more rugged and remote, but it did. Rt. 12 winds down through a large, arid no-man’s land of white sandstone—I guess petrified sand dunes. This whole area was once the bottom of a huge inland sea which formed all these unusual rock formations. Then we started climbing up onto a canyon rim and at one point the road went over this ridge with drops on both sides—the only place they could put the road. Scared the crap outta me! And we have to go back over this route with the fifth-wheel in tow in four days (sigh). The view from up there was amazing though—rugged canyons, side canyons and gorges as far as the eye could see. We finally started going down again and a small, green valley that was Boulder appeared. Not very big. Escalante is pretty small, but Boulder is smaller. And it’s big doings right now in Utah. This is their Pioneer Day holiday—sort of our July 4th. There’s a parade tomorrow, a carnival, a rodeo, and then fireworks. And there’s a dance in Escalante tonight. We were thinking of going to that—actually, I was thinking of going. I’m sure Mike would rather get a root canal. Probably only in the high 80s today. But more humid.