Adventures of NaDave: 1-year Anniv Utah

Before saying goodbye to Moab, we took a morning trip to see some dinosaur tracks and also do a hike to see Corona Arch. This arch is massive and is famous for people bungee jumping off the arch.
It was a pleasant hike, but the weather got hot quickly so we made sure we were finished by 11am.

As we said goodbye to Moab, we headed for Newspaper Rock, a famous rock with carvings from the early indians.

Next we stopped at Four Corners Monument and did the goofy pose to put a limb in each state at once.

Our final stop before Monument Valley was Gooseneck State Park. This place is surprisingly unknown, but has an unbelievable double entrenched meander of the San Juan River. So beautiful. From there we headed past Mexican Hat, AZ and into Monument Valley.

The photos of Monument Valley can only do it justice. The place looks like a movie set yet has a spiritual feel due to massive red stone features. We snapped photos constantly.

We arrived to our campsite and it was very windy. We picked our campsite, but waited to put up our tent to minimize the amount of sand that would blow in. To explore the park, we booked a 3 hour driving tour which took us to sights beyond the public road. We saw old Navajo sights, and spiritual areas that our guide gave background about and told Navajo stories.
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The tour ended and it was time to set up the tent. It was so windy, we looked like a black-and-white of people who had never put a tent together. We eventually got everything setup on the sandy surface, and needed big stones to place over the anchors to keep the tent from flying away. As the sun went down, we made some lovely peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Before climbing in the tent, we saw the moonrise one more time, but this time the moon looked red! There was so much sand blowing in the wind, that the moon appeared red, crazy!

Corona Arch...Nadine in the lower center (just outside Moab, UT)