Home Again!

Saturday evening everyone was on our own for dinner.  We chose to go to the Moab Brewery for wings and things with John and Romola and Les and Ida!  The bar was packed so we ate in the dinning room but fortunately, Ida could still see a tv showing the Alabama college football game and fortunately for us, they won!  LOL  Ida is very into her team!

Sunday we put the crockpot on in the morning and then headed to Dead Horse State Park with Lou and Carol.  The legend is that the cowboys would round up the wild horses and put them out there on the mesa and they put up corrals on three sides because the horses would not jump off the cliffs.  The cowboys would go back later and get the horses they wanted but left the others.  The cliff was several thousand feet high and they could see the Colorado River below but they died from thirst.  Despite the legend, it is a beautiful area.  Carol kept Ted from falling off the rock!

Who are these people at Dead Horse Point???

In the evening we provided two pork loins, one southwestern flavored and one Korean flavored and the rest of the group provided salad, rice, and more.  For dessert the group came over to our grassy area with their chairs and we shared some dessert libation!  It was a nice end to the rolling rally!

Monday morning we all said goodbye and went our separate ways.  We headed to Draper, Utah, a few miles south of Salt Lake City!  We were having our large slide out repaired on Tuesday.  It is repaired and then we were on our way on Thursday to Box Elder, South Dakota (HOME)!   We made it here yesterday afternoon (Friday).

Today we decided to drive some more!  We drove a scenic hour to Custer State Park.  We were beginning to think we were not going to see any animals but Prairie Dogs, when we came up on a herd of Bison.  There were two big guys fighting in the middle of the road.  We were not close enough (other tourists) to get pictures of the fighting but it was pretty exciting to see.  We did get some of the guys meandering around!

  

Next we came to a Visitor Center and found a Pronghorn buck and two ladies lying around the area.  The buck was on duty protecting his two ladies from another guy who got too close. 

We drove on and came to the beautiful State Game Lodge (formerly the summer White House for Calvin Coolidge).  Between busloads we had a good lunch in the beautiful dining room before heading back to the campground. 

I drove so Ted could sightsee and we picked what looked like the shortest route through the park to get out of the park so we could get home to Sophie!  We drove away from the Lodge in time to see some young Bighorn Sheep crossing the road.

Then a little further down the road we came across some people in the road and someone had noticed this Bighorn Sheep up on the rock.  He was spectacular!

We thought we had picked the quickest route out of the park, but we picked the route with LOTS of hairpin curves on VERY narrow roads.  I’m sure Ted was holding his breath in the areas where he was on the side of steep dropoffs!  We did see some beautiful spires and when he wasn’t scared, Ted had a beautiful view!  I was busy navigating the roads!

Seeing wild animals in their natural habitat…”Ain’t Life Grand!”