Musings from an Anchored Traveler: Arches National Park

We found a nice campsite in the heart of Moab with free showers and gas grills. It had nice shade trees and grassy areas and picnic tables. After setting up, we went to Arches National Park arriving around 6 p.m. at Landscape Arch in the north of the park. We briskly walked to go see it before briskly walking back and heading for Delicate Arch which is supposed to be amazing at Sunset.

The hike up to Delicate was strenuous and 1.5 miles each way. Eric was so worried about missing the sunset that he literally jogged the entire way up. The rest of us took it a bit easier and I'm glad we did - the sunset went on for another hour after we arrived. We all got photos inside the arch - along with what seemed like the rest of the world. It was so amazing standing inside of it though - looking down at canyons on both sides. It's hard to imagine how big it is until you are standing under it.

Anyway, we quite enjoyed over an hour of photo taking, talking to strangers, and observing the red rocks. On the way back down, it was difficult getting Eric to come along he was still taking photos every few feet even as it was getting darker. Meera and I decided to run part of the way down because of the slope and to beat the dark, so Jarod stayed behind with Eric. On the way down, a 21 year old Swiss boy was hitting on Meera which was really funny because he thought she was 23 - not 31. We didn't correct him.

By the time we got back to our camp it was 10 p.m., so we all got ready for bed and had the best showers ever (since we hadn't had them in days and days).

Jarod, Eric and I took a really cool photo right before bed to celebrate our trip which I will include.