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Day 6 and Mother Nature tries a new trick.
Left Moab this morning for Arches National Park.
Lesson - you need to prebook entry and pay $2 to do so. Online or phone. One email address can book only one entry per day, so one person cannot book entry for additional people. Each person must install the app, create a Recreation.gov account before booking anything. So just phone right? Not if you want entry that day. When I called, it was “no available time slots remaining for today”. Was online at 8:55 am and booked 9 am entry for today. What a pain.
Anyway, by 10 am its over 95F in the park. Not too busy, but starting to get clogged in the view spots. ‘The Windows’ and “Delicate Arch” was enough. Close to 100F and time to go.
On to Monticello on 191. Then Monticello to Cortez on 491. Nothing to write home about. Blew thru Dove Creek and spotted a tank parked in front of the Police Station. Take that all you other police stations with an old piece of artillery! (No pic, sorry, too hot)
Cortez to Durango on 160 was last leg of this day. Around Mancos it started to get dark. A few miles further it started to rain. Then it got real serious about raining. I watched the thermometer move from 100F to 60F in about one mile. Then the first set of cross winds hit. About 10 miles and the rain starts to ease up. Another 10 and hit again, with rain you cant see thru and cross winds that were ‘a challenge’. But I was finally cool! Soaked thru (didnt bother with rain gear) and happy. Hats off to Yamaha for building a platform that grins when it rains and laughs at crosswinds. Onto hotel with free drinks for guests, and T’s Smokehouse for catfish with red beans and rice for dinner.
The only photos today are from Arches. Around 2000 miles now.
![DSCN3371.jpeg DSCN3371.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7547-8345d4b8787ae061e10a8f34664530bd.jpg)
Looking down on entry into park.
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![DSCN3375.jpeg DSCN3375.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7549-41c5992e19fb5439b4f84dfd8b56f4d7.jpg)
![DSCN3378.jpeg DSCN3378.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7550-4bd8037d687883e452560948111b384e.jpg)
Balance rock.
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The Windows -left
![DSCN3382.jpeg DSCN3382.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7553-171c243ca4b5daa7a7a9a0e2a8b0f40b.jpg)
The Windows -right. Check the scale, thats a person standing in the ‘window’.
![DSCN3386.jpeg DSCN3386.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7554-1ff512f13a0d3bf211af2caae610b9ba.jpg)
Delicate Arch, scale, again, person under arch.
Thx for the positive comments, Glad to know the effort is appreciated.
-Steve
Left Moab this morning for Arches National Park.
Lesson - you need to prebook entry and pay $2 to do so. Online or phone. One email address can book only one entry per day, so one person cannot book entry for additional people. Each person must install the app, create a Recreation.gov account before booking anything. So just phone right? Not if you want entry that day. When I called, it was “no available time slots remaining for today”. Was online at 8:55 am and booked 9 am entry for today. What a pain.
Anyway, by 10 am its over 95F in the park. Not too busy, but starting to get clogged in the view spots. ‘The Windows’ and “Delicate Arch” was enough. Close to 100F and time to go.
On to Monticello on 191. Then Monticello to Cortez on 491. Nothing to write home about. Blew thru Dove Creek and spotted a tank parked in front of the Police Station. Take that all you other police stations with an old piece of artillery! (No pic, sorry, too hot)
Cortez to Durango on 160 was last leg of this day. Around Mancos it started to get dark. A few miles further it started to rain. Then it got real serious about raining. I watched the thermometer move from 100F to 60F in about one mile. Then the first set of cross winds hit. About 10 miles and the rain starts to ease up. Another 10 and hit again, with rain you cant see thru and cross winds that were ‘a challenge’. But I was finally cool! Soaked thru (didnt bother with rain gear) and happy. Hats off to Yamaha for building a platform that grins when it rains and laughs at crosswinds. Onto hotel with free drinks for guests, and T’s Smokehouse for catfish with red beans and rice for dinner.
The only photos today are from Arches. Around 2000 miles now.
![DSCN3371.jpeg DSCN3371.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7547-8345d4b8787ae061e10a8f34664530bd.jpg)
Looking down on entry into park.
![DSCN3373.jpeg DSCN3373.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7548-7a4bc3ff406a8090816a3ae76f8445c9.jpg)
![DSCN3375.jpeg DSCN3375.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7549-41c5992e19fb5439b4f84dfd8b56f4d7.jpg)
![DSCN3378.jpeg DSCN3378.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7550-4bd8037d687883e452560948111b384e.jpg)
Balance rock.
![DSCN3377.jpeg DSCN3377.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7551-292d872e355ece30520fe2c6970ede3b.jpg)
![DSCN3380.jpeg DSCN3380.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7552-55d8376772ee7cf8f8923cdf64fa694d.jpg)
The Windows -left
![DSCN3382.jpeg DSCN3382.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7553-171c243ca4b5daa7a7a9a0e2a8b0f40b.jpg)
The Windows -right. Check the scale, thats a person standing in the ‘window’.
![DSCN3386.jpeg DSCN3386.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/fjrforum/data/attachments/7/7554-1ff512f13a0d3bf211af2caae610b9ba.jpg)
Delicate Arch, scale, again, person under arch.
Thx for the positive comments, Glad to know the effort is appreciated.
-Steve