Cool in the morning. Nice sitting outside our RV drinking coffee.
Arches National Park - 106 degrees. Rock formations and arches look like they were dropped out of the sky by God.
How do the flat surfaces of some of these vertical buttes get so flat? It looks like millions of years ago there were two plates and they just cracked apart.
The sand at Arches looks like coral pink sand, but only because of our rose-colored sunglasses. Really, it's yellow.
Hiking in sand is very hard work. We are learning to pace ourselves better. We are trying not to take any hikes over 0.5 miles round trip when the temperature is over 100 degrees. More than that, and we wilt. But that means that we miss about 7 arches which can only be reached by foot.
We learn a new scientific term: "Cryptobiotic Crust". It means the hidden life that is growing in the desert here which we must be very careful not to disturb in our hikes. Here it looks like crunchy, somewhat irridescent green lichen from a distance.
It's a sacrifice we must make, because, as Bob's son Jim (the comedian in the family) says: "You're old!"
Corinne is feeling stronger every day, but the heat and the altitude still slow her down. Considering she has two chronic health problems, she considers herself very fortunate to be able to do what I do.
On the way "home" we stop at the local grocery store. We are very impressed that they have "Senior Citizen Parking". What a concept! We take full advantage, of course.
In the evening we go to see "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". They just keep getting better and better. The Quidich scenes, though, we find unnecessary and not very interesting.
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