Sat, Oct 25: Route 24/Temple Mtn Road to Cattle Corale in UT
It was quiet after the cars stopped coming and going as expected.
Now this is the desert but there was an interesting little tree (a locust) at this corner with a carefully made border of rocks and a small set of stones made into a sitting bench. It was planted in 1956 (my birth year) by Edith Marsing. It was requested that you give it some water....which I did. A bit of grass was growing under it and it was alive in the desert where normally it would not thrive (no cottonwoods indicating any water right here). So people ARE watering it! How cool is that!
Note to self. We had managed somehow to not do laundry for five weeks...hence washed everything! $16.50 Laundry in Price Utah.
We went down route 95...notes places for trash, possible places to explore instead of Goblin Valley next year (WAY OVER USED) and places to overnight park and possibly longer.
We decided to stop at Natural Bridges National Monument. The camground is small and tight with a maximum of 26 feet total. Even though we are 25 feet, we won't stay there. Drove the loop rode and david looked at most things and Mali and I a bit.
Our traveling day came to an end shortly after Natural Bridges when we settled into our home for the night at a old cattle corale. It had rained a lot south of Goblin Valley and you could see it in the skies a couple of days ago It was evident as we drove today by the water soaked red soil and the greening up of the plants. Everything was greener than usual.
Walk in evening. Walking down the road took us to a blm camping area; it would have been a bit more quiet (we can hear cars/vans/pick up trucks and more than you would think). The road was rather rough with a washout on the side and it might have taken some road work/rocks for the last bit. It was not really worth the effort. I could see recent tracks down there.
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