Day 8 Tuesday 22 Sept 2015



It's Tuesday morning and I'm leaving Dinosaur Park.  You can see these mountains from the camp ground.  There is a river that meanders through the camp ground too.  It's a nice area.  I can just imagine a whole herd of dinosaurs buried deep in this rock waiting to be discovered.

Here's that river I was telling you about.   I think it's the Greene River or something like that but it looks like pure mud.  Just as brown as it can be.  Dirty looking.  I wouldn't eat any fish that came out of it.  But in this part of the country I guess any water at all is better than none.

I've wandered and roamed all day and here I am at Horsethief Campground north of Moab, Utah.  I wanted to stay at Dead Horse Point State Park but the campground there was full.  Dead Horse is where Thelma and Louise took the plunge.  It has some killer views there.  Beautiful park but they charge $10 just to get in to it.  No, thanks.  I'll keep my money.  The lady at the ticket office was kind enough to recommend Horsethief as a good place to stay.  It's run by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and it was a wonderful campground.  I even took a pic of the vault toilet for you to see how nice it was.  Horsethief is just a few miles from Dead Horse so it wasn't out of the way for me to get here.  If you are ever near Moab, you MUST take the drive off the main highway to Dead Horse Point State Park.  It is stunning.  The rock cliffs are bright red.

My camp space at Horsethief.  I'm surrounded by lots of juniper bushes and trees.  They have the most unusual shapes to them.  Quite gnarly.  Some are tall and lean, others are short and squatty.  They grow in all kinds of shpaes.

Here's one of those short and squatty ones.  This one was in my camp space.

These camp spaces are very well equipped.  They all have a nice steel picnic table and a fire ring with a cooking grate.  There's that Pookie on the tail gate again like a bird on its' perch.  She was guarding the ice chest.  That's where the sausage and eggs are stored.  She likes the ice chest.

Sunset at Horsethief.   These junipers cast some strange shadows.  It's prettier than the picture.  Really.

We had a pretty sunset.  The neighbors next to me rated it an 8.  They said the previous night it was a 9 or maybe even a 9.5.  Guess I was a day late again.  But I was happy with this one.  God did mighty fine by me.

Here's that sunset through one of those junipers.  I just thought it was cool so I took a pic.  Hope you like it too.