Wednesday 3rd October
The problem with being out of Internet range is that you forget where you are with the blog!. We have now been out of range for over a week, so I am not sure where I should pick up from.
The problem with being out of Internet range is that you forget where you are with the blog!. We have now been out of range for over a week, so I am not sure where I should pick up from.
Sally has not been too well, having had a throat infection, which was cured by the doctor in Escalante on Monday with a shot in the bum (antibiotics). This left her feeling pretty exhausted, so we rested at the Petrified Forest State Park until Wednesday. We left Escalante to tackle what I feel is the central challenge of our trip this Fall – Capitol Reef, particularly a feature called the Waterpocket Fold.
I digress. To reach the inner parts of the Waterpocket Fold we needed a base camp, the only suitable place, that we could plan, is a small pull off about 5 miles down the Burr Trail Road. A place marked by a large lone Ponderosa Pine (as described by the Forest Ranger at the visitor center in Escalante). We set out from Escalante on Wednesday 3rd October. We drove up route 12. Another spectacular section of road taking us through more ravines. We turned off route 12 at Boulder, onto the Burr Trail and surprise, surprise, found the pull off with its Lone Ponderosa Pine, just about lunch time. Here we camped, alone, in the middle of the desert, in the dark, where there might be bears, or robbers, or scorpions. We enjoyed the solitude and the warm weather, Sally continued to be exhausted, but recovering, so we sat for the rest of the day here just enjoying the peace.
Couldn't not include this very unlikely hit in the UK in 1975, it would have reached number 1, but for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody:
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