24 March, 2010 - Day 14

We are now completing two weeks on the road, and things are flowing smoothly. With the pace and amount we have seen, sometimes it is hard to remember the where and when. We are nearing 2000 miles traveled. A little bit of "if its Tuesday This must be Belgium...". Fortunately, we have the "Captain's Log". It started as joke,... "Captain's log... star date ...., make it so Mr. Zulu". (You quickly understand why in the movie "RV" the horn plays the Star Trek theme). However, the log has proved quite helpful, and we have expanded it to include a plant and animal log, as well as a park/museum log. In addition to notable Big Horn Sheep, and Condor, today we added Prong Horn Antelope to the nature log.

Today we drove through parts of Capitol Reef, as we made our way to Arches/Canyon Lands/Moab Utah. Only saw a handful of cars the whole morning. Made a great lunch stop at Goblin State Park, which was like a rock mushroom garden gone crazy! The kids loved exploring and climbing around while Amanda made lunch. (Grant) - It was really cool going through the mazes and climbing up towers that looked like mushrooms! (Greg)-As we neared the Moab area, we confirmed that the National Park campgrounds in this warmer area were full (we are also running into people on spring break), so we stumbled across the Sand Flat BLM campground, aka "Slickrock" (for those mountain bike riders and 4Wheelers). It was "way cool" and only about 2 miles from Moab. If you enlarge the picture by double clicking on it, you will be able to make out that the specs on top of the petrified sand dune rocks are actually the kids taking a hike around the campground! Walkie talkies come in handy to call them back for dinner!