another mini trip update

Today we're in Moab, staying at Arches National Park. It's incredibly beautiful but also incredibly hot (98) and any shade is filled with bugs. I'd like to come back in October. Yesterday we enjoyed a lovely drive here from Santa Fe, and learned much about the various liquor laws in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. We also drove the Devil's Highway (in my old atlas it's 666, now renumbered 491). It was actually quite pretty. Idyllic--somewhat like Switzerland with sage brush.

We're having a good time with Mike and Linda, tomorrow early we all depart--them back to Denver, us down to Vegas, where we're staying at the Gold Nugget (it was cheap! Plus they have shark tank now--yeep!). Hope to check in then. If not, we're then off through Death Valley to Independence, CA. Love to all!