The next day was a long but very beautiful drive to Moab. We stayed at Kokopelli Inn, an environmentally friendly, hippie style motel with brightly colored walls and hand made furniture. That too was only $65 a night but each cat cost us $5 a night. Still cheap! We checked in, went to the Moab Brewery (yes, they have their own brewery) for dinner, and walked around this tourist town before settling down with the cats for the rest of the evening.
The next day we spent exploring Arches. BTW, whoever is 62 y/o or more can get a pass from the Forest Service that admits you and whoever is in your car to every national park and forest for free! I had one, and it worked! Arches is beyond my ability to describe it. For this writer a picture works better. No wonder the park is packed with folks who come to admire the colors and structures that took so much time to form. It’s amazing that the park was created on top of a salt bed that was deposited over millions of years by inland seas that came, evaporated, and came again to develop a bed of salt more a mile thick. The salt bed was fragile and collapsed under the weight of other sediment and rock deposits that came afterwards. After collapsing, the salt bed slid along a rock bottom and buckled, cracking the sediments on top of it that then pushed upwards like the fins of fish. These narrow “mountains” made of different materials eroded at different rates to form the arches and spires. You will have to go yourself to appreciate it.
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