Lucy has escaped

[Gene]

There's a pretty good pizza restaurant on the main street on the west side. It may be at Center or Central. The outside siding is wood planks.

Gene

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by Relentless

Where are you staying in Moab?

John

John,

We are at the OK RV Park, 3310 Spanish Valley Drive, Moab. Are you here somewhere? I have never seen so many RV parks and RV's in one place in my life. My cell is 850-830-9444.

Brian

[Hueytownalss]

Just found your thread. Sounds like a great trip so far. Looking forward to more.

[Relentless]

Brian;

No. I'm at home. We stayed at a park just outside of town that was pretty bad 3 years ago. I was hoping you were not making the same mistake. It seems you are not.

John

[moosetags]

Lucy broke camp at Grand Junction, Colorado, this morning, and headed west into Utah. It was a fairly short driving day, and we got to the campground Moab fairly early. This gave us a chance to look around town for a bit and give Olivia a bath which was sorely needed.

When we got back to the campground, there was the cutest little trailer camped next to Lucy. It is called an Oxygen, and was made in Canada for only one year, 2002. We met the owners and had a tour of their trailer. They were from Quebec.

This campground also has a special section for people traveling with horses. Lucy is camped pretty close to the equine section. We think that Lucy likes being near the horses.

Brian

[OB Bambi]

SuEllyn and Brian: Thanks for your photos and explainations of your trip. Believe it or not I look forward to coming home from work and reading what you did during the day or the day before. Thanks.

In case you were wondering what the new camper (Ethyl) looks like mounted on (Fred), I saw this today in La Jolla, CA and thought you might get a kick out of it. I would suspect yours will look like this. What didn't show up on the photo is this rig had been somewhere over the weekend because it had a lot of mud on it. The owner wasn't around so I couldn't ask questions.

Randy Bowman

[azflycaster]

Sounds like the RV Park just south of town. Moab is a wonderful place to visit with so many things to see and do. The city market in town is a good place to shop and they have a Starbucks which is always a plus for us.

Which way are you headed next?

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by OB Bambi

SuEllyn and Brian: Thanks for your photos and explainations of your trip. Believe it or not I look forward to coming home from work and reading what you did during the day or the day before. Thanks.

In case you were wondering what the new camper (Ethyl) looks like mounted on (Fred), I saw this today in La Jolla, CA and thought you might get a kick out of it. I would suspect yours will look like this. What didn't show up on the photo is this rig had been somewhere over the weekend because it had a lot of mud on it. The owner wasn't around so I couldn't ask questions.

Randy Bowman

Thank you so much for the photo, Randy. That will pretty much be Ethel and Fred. That looks like an Apex 8, except Fred will be a long bed so the won't be any overhang. I'm glad that you're enjoying Lucy's adventures.

Brian

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by azflycaster

Sounds like the RV Park just south of town. Moab is a wonderful place to visit with so many things to see and do. The city market in town is a good place to shop and they have a Starbucks which is always a plus for us.

Which way are you headed next?

You've got it, Richard. Lucy is camped at the OK RV Park on the south side of town. We are probably going to lay in here for another day or two. From here we would like to head up to the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. If the weather isn't suitable yet, we may head down to Escalante for a few days.

Brian

[moosetags]

Lucy is still camped in Moab, Utah. We did some housekeeping chores this morning before heading out into the wilderness.

When we stopped to gas up Olivia in town, we ran across the king of truck campers. It was a giant all terrain truck. The owners live in Germany, and had their truck camper shipped over here to tour the United States. We took several pictures of this unique vehicle.

We continued out south of town to a mountain hiking trail in Utah's red rock country. Along the way, we saw several groups climbing the vertical face of red rock mountains. We stopped to watch for a few minutes. We were quite impressed as we watched the climbers make their way up the mountain.

We hiked the Corona Arch Trail. It was a 3 mile round trip, the first half of which was pretty much straight up. At a couple of point along the trail, we had to use cables and ladders to make it up the grade. At the end of the trail was the Corona Arch and several other interesting rock formations. The scenery along the trail was spectacular. We had the hiking trail pretty much to ourselves. To be out by ourselves in this spectacular wildness was an adventure. These mountain trails are marked with cairns which are little piles of rocks. Many hikers add to these piles as they move along the trail.

We made it back to Lucy just before dark where we dined large on microwave dinners and snuggled in for the night.

Brian

[Lily&Me]

Beautiful, beautiful pictures!


Maggie

[BillTex]

Hey Brian, good trip report…thanx for sharing.

FYI (don’t want you to get flamed over on the TC forum!) that is not really a “Truck Camper”…rather referred to as an Expo or Overland vehicle…
Typically, Unimogs/Mans/Fuso/etc are hard mounted to the chassis and not (readily) removable.
Truck campers must be removable to be classified as such.


You must be psyched to have finally made a decision.
Remember…I warned you!

Bill

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by BillTex

Hey Brian, good trip report…thanx for sharing.

FYI (don’t want you to get flamed over on the TC forum!) that is not really a “Truck Camper”…rather referred to as an Expo or Overland vehicle…
Typically, Unimogs/Mans/Fuso/etc are hard mounted to the chassis and not (readily) removable.
Truck campers must be removable to be classified as such.


You must be psyched to have finally made a decision.
Remember…I warned you!

Bill

Hey Bill.

Thanx for the info on the nomenclature. I may not mention it over there on the TC forums as it is not as easy to post pictures there.

We are all exited about the TC thing. We see a lot of side trip opportunities as we travel.

Brian

[pmclemore]

Do you guys have Monument Valley on your list? You are kind of in range (of course, a Virginian will say that everything is in range out there). If you can swing it, go to Goblin Valley, tour the Horseshoe Canyon unit (if you can do the 600' climb out) and then head south to Monument Valley. If you have not done it, do it. Go to Gouldings Trading Post and try to leave with your wallet.

If you have been there, in the words of Emily Letella - "Never mind".

Pat

[CanoeStream]

Originally Posted by pmclemore

Do you guys have Monument Valley on your list? You are kind of in range (of course, a Virginian will say that everything is in range out there).

If any sort of wind is up, don't bother with Monument Valley. The fetches for wind are long. We had easy conditions headed from Navajo Bridge to Tuba City a year ago. Winds were really wailing by the time we got to Kayenta -- so strong that the southern half of the sky at Moab was brown. Consider Monument Valley if it's anything less than that. US-163 from Kayenta to Mexican Hat is scenic enough. But it takes quite a detour into a pay area of the reservation to get the full Hollywood Thelma & Louise scenery. Worth it if you have time.

FWIW -- Bluff was the artist escape destination of 10 years ago and it has drawn too much attention to remain that. Fair campground choices worth researching as I saw it driving through ... headed to Moab of course.

[moosetags]

Lucy is still camped in Moab, Utah. Today we visited Arches National Park which is not far out of Moab. The rock formations and various famous arches are really cool. The sights were breathtaking. The size and scale of these rock formations are amazing. We took lots of pictures, and stayed in the park until dusk.

On the way back to Lucy, we stopped at the City Market in Moab and got a really nice baked cod supper from their deli. Then is was back to Lucy for nice supper as a full moon appeared over the snow capped mountains in the distance.

Here are a few photos of the day in Arches NP.

Brian

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Hi, Brian. I see that you moved that piece of dead tree that has been there for hundreds of years. Watch out for the park rangers. Also did you hike to the Delicate Arch? We did, but the path got quite narrow at the top and the wind was blowing really hard, so I wasn't feeling to good about being up that high. I don't like heights. My wife is the dare devil or mountain goat. [no fear of heights like me]

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by ROBERTSUNRUS

Hi, Brian. I see that you moved that piece of dead tree that has been there for hundreds of years. Watch out for the park rangers. Also did you hike to the Delicate Arch? We did, but the path got quite narrow at the top and the wind was blowing really hard, so I wasn't feeling to good about being up that high. I don't like heights. My wife is the dare devil or mountain goat. [no fear of heights like me]

No, we didn't hike up to delicate Arch. It was getting really late in the day, so we let the telephoto lens do the hike for us.

Brian

[moosetags]

Today we got a late start because Olivia had to go to the Chevrolet Dealer here in Moab for a repair to the electronics of her 4 wheel drive system. While she was there she got her front differential serviced and her oil changed. Moab Chevrolet did really well with Olivia. She was out in two hours.

On our way out of town we saw a very unusual Airstream rig at a roadside rest area. the owner was in the process changing street tires to off roads. I never realized that an Airstream would pull another trailer.


Even though it was raining, we headed out to Dead Horse Point State Park to see the famous hairpin turn in the Colorado River. Sights in the park are quite impressive, especially Dead horse Point itself.

We got back to Lucy a little before dark, and started breaking camp as we plan to head out tomorrow morning and go down to Escalante, Utah, and see the Grand Staircase National Monument.

Brian

[emdubyadee]

Brian,


Your travelogue means so much to those of us stuck at work wishing we could be out Airstreaming. My wife and I look forward every day to reading about your latest adventure. Thank you so much for sharing this trip and those in the past.