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Noname RV spot, Boulder, Utah. Tachometer – 1450 Miles

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We woke up easy and relaxed this morning and departed rather late from Ruby’s complex. Aside from the RV park they have a hotel, general store, gas station and restaurant. We bought some groceries at the store, what a ripoff.

We continued east on beautiful highway 12 and then cut south to visit a small state park called Kodachrome basin. It is very colorful (mostly red and brown) and is known for it’s unique 67 pipes standing erect in various shapes and sizes. After a quick lunch, we headed out for a 3 mile hike called the Panorama Trail. This trail allows you to see some of the pipes. They are not really pipes because they are not hollow, but I guess the namers did not want to introduce a more phallic name; which is strange because on the map not too far is a mountain peak called Mollie’s Nipple.

The hike itself was hard. It was very hot, there was no shade, the wind blew sand in our eyes, and the terrain was sandy and narrow. It is a trail for hikers and mountain bikes. Let’s just say that our double stroller helped to widen the trail…On the up side, the views were fantastic, and Ron did the whole 3 miles by himself. Way to go Ron!

We got back to the RV and maxed up the AC, and then got back to highway 12 going northeast. All the kids fell asleep as we drove through beautiful desert mountain scenery. In the late afternoon we reached the area known as Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. This is a relatively new park commissioned by President Clinton in 1996. It is a collection of several smaller areas of interest that all together make up the largest park in Utah. Unfortunately for us, most of the roads are unpaved and unsafe for RVs. The one place I wanted to visit is called Calf Creek. We got there around 6pm and their tiny campground was already full. So we continued north on 12. We drove on the “Hog’s Back”, several miles where the road is on the ridge and you look down both right and left. Very impressive.

We reached the tiny and picturesque town of Boulder as the day was ending and we stopped for the night in a seemingly abandoned RV park on the main road. It is part of a gas station/grocery store and has 5 sites. Happily for us all the hookups are working and we are settled in for the night. So far we are the only RV here.

Good night,

-Hemi

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