My Favorite Things in Moab!

Here are a few of my favorite things....(try to not sing that all day now....from the girl that hates musicals!!).

*The bathrooms here were cute individual sheds and the prime time to shower is late, after everything has dried. Consider this proof that most KOA bathrooms are quite clean.

*The patchouli soap that makes the camper smell like a hippie's VW Vanagon.

*Shopping in town with Annie, we are bad together. "Should I get this? Of course you should!!"

*The sunset, taken by Kristian from our campsite.

*and a guided tour on a river boat!!

 

Our guide was cute funny and had tons of trivia for the four hour trip. There are over 2,000 arches in this area created by water erosion, but my favorite tidbit was that Johnny Depp is about to film here! This picture shows the Hollywood hanging tree about to be used in the new Lone Ranger movie to hang the bad guys.

A little further down the river was a steam engine (zoom waaaay in) is set up ready to be run off the cliff (computer animation will take over). The engine just so happens to be set up on the exact cliff that Thelma and Louise committed Harry Carry!! Annie's camera zoomed in so much on that steam engine that you can see the engineer picking his nose, use your imagination and I'll post highlights later.

A few other movies shot here include 127 hours (which actually happened here in Moab, dude had to cut his hand off with a Swiss army knife to save himself), John Carter, and a Will Smith movie among countless others.

Captain Hunk-a-hunk Rory let us search for fossils, he's showing Teddy a fossilized muscle...

...and that burnt looking piece of wood is also solid fossilized rock. So cool!! 

Dead Horse Point state park is a dramatic overlook of the Colorado river. It was used as a natural corral by cowboys in the 19th century and along with being 2000 feet above the river, it is the area of 35 football fields.

Here's a shot from above, looking down from Dead Horse Point to the river, exactly where we turned around on the boat.

I thought this was soooooo cool, every September they boat in 200 people to enjoy the natural acoustics of this grotto. Our guide says they carry out a baby grand on the boat along with all the musicians and they put on beautiful concerts including operas, right here on the Colorado river.

There were so many more cool facts and tidbits of information to hear, we even saw honest to goodness petroglyphs. "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I now"...oh crap I'm singing again. We are going to be sad to leave this place, I might even say it has been my favorite place to visit and must come back.