more, but this time, mostly words.

Okay. Once again, I am at a computer in a public Library, making the other patrons endure my what I assume is a less-than-enjoyable odor. I sit here, after procrastinating by posting pictures first, preparing to attack another helpless and unsuspecting keyboard, spewing a stream of semi coherent blather onto the already massacred creation that is our beloved interweb.

I am in Montecello, Utah. Last time I wrote I was in Palisade. The route is as follows.
Nov/13 - Palisade to just east of the Utah border in open range cattle country
Nov/14 - Utah border to Moab and then north to Arches National Park, crashed near Balanced Rock.
Nov/15 - moved to Arches Campground
Nov/16 - stayed in Arches, took a hike
Nov/17 - left Arches and went to the Wheeler residence four miles south of Moab
Nov/18 - Moab to near Newspaper Rock State Park
Nov/19 - Got to Canyonlands, Camped at the campground
Nov/20 - Stayed in Canyonlands, hiked
Nov/22 - Stayed in Canyonlands, hiked
Nov/23 - left Canyonlands camground and pedaled to Manti-LaSal National Forest Campground
Nov/ 24 - left National Forest and descended to Montecello

Tentative route; Montecello to Grand Gulch Primitive Area near Blanding, There onto a gas station near the Glenn Canyon crossing, there to Hanksville, and then on to Capitol Reef National Park. Then.....

i arrived today in Montecello and headed immediately for the Post office. There I was reunited with my wallet. Hewever, they had not yet received the other package I was expecting; a package from my Aunt in Baltimore. The package should be here tomorrow, so I made it a short day and decided to update the blog (as I checked my voicemail today for the first time in a week i recieved a message telling me that the blog was in serious need of attention).

My stay in Canyonlands National Park was incredible. I was surrounded with astounding and breathtaking scenery, and managed to meet a couple great human beings while there as well. Tracy and her husband (I'm awful with names and his has slipped my mind) operate The Needles Outpost, a gas station/grocery/souvinir shop/restaurant located just outside the park boundary. It's the only place to get anything gas or food related besides Montecello, which is the closest town to The Needles District of Canyonlands and is 50 miles from the park. Tracy gave me great deals on a bunch of food items, and rounded everything down at the cash register. 4.99 became 4, 2.99 became 2, etc. This was in addition to making a couple items half off. Sunday was their last day open for the season, and I stopped in on my way out of the Park, hoping to buy a couple of the Outpost's homemade muffins. I left with a loaf of bread, a package of instant stroganoff, a new brown bandanna, and two muffins. The price on the loaf of bread said 4.2- something, Tracy said the muffins were a dollar apiece, and yet my bill was a flat five dollars. Thanks Tracy.

The other folks i met in the park was a family staying in the Campground next to me. I don't know how many people were in the group, but they had two modest trailors pulled by reasonable cars. Not once, but twice, they offered me fresh fruit and ended up giving me a bag of fresh fruit plus other goodies.

I need a break form the computer. I may get a chance to get back on before I leave Monticello, or I may not. Thanks for reading.