I will drive to Moab, Utah, on June 7 and stay until about July 1, exploring on foot most of the trails and some non-trails in a reported wonderland of rocks and canyons. I hope to see the shadow-paintings at sunrise and sunset, and to hike at noontime among the chipping-grounds and pictographs of the Anasazi.
I was inspired to do this back in 2007 when, while riding a bicycle solo across America, I passed through southern Utah. These pictures are from that travel, placed in order east to west. This time I will delve into canyons and ascend mesas, where then I sojourned in what now seems a fast wind.
Fifty miles south of Moab
Fifty miles south of Moab
Several miles west of Colorado River, forty miles southwest of Moab
Capitol Reef National Park, pictographs of the Anasazi, seventy miles west of Moab
Eight miles west of Boulder, Utah, one hundred miles west of Moab
Bryce Canyon, 160 miles west of Moab
For Sharon, World Traveler Extraordinaire
ReplyDeleteOh,
don't outgrow
whatever it is
you've got—
lest I be the one
who miss
the journey
rocks, ice,
snowdogs, sun
and all the teeming
life between.
It will be me
who is undone
It will be me
who has not seen
the treasures you
collect and share
with all of us
so we can know.
Oh
don't outgrow
this traveling.
I travel too
with you
in thought
and image
Do not
outgrow
but ever go
let it not
be forgot
you carry
me and others too
who accompany
you on virtual trails
I follow as I can
in gratitude
from where I am
inside your re-
created worlds
courtesy of your email,
blessing you
as you reach
each wondrous,
curious, heretofore
unimagined spot.
Oh, do not
under any circumstance
outgrow. Perish, perish
the thought. Ever go.
So I too can know.
Happy travels to Utah Sharon!
Thanks, Susan for these good wishes.
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Hello dear Sharon I like that you were lured by this place by your bicycle trip, I know how the beauty of a landscape we must pass through can stay alive in memory and be a magnet for future adventure. That is how I came to Santa Fe, we were traveling across the country west to east from Santa Barbara to NY when my children were small and fell in love with the red mesas. On the return journey we decided to go back to that place that looked so beautiful. We lived there for almost a year, and it was a life changing moment, for then I learned jewelry and our story unfolds in a new way, and led us back to Santa Barbara, after I absorbed that amazing new beauty and skill. And so may your time in that beautiful place be as full of surprise and good changes and insights. I know it will be as you go open to the new and you will see creatures waiting in the hills for you, with new beauty. Love to you from "Golden China" (Jinhua) and now Shanghai again... soon we will find Yellow Mountain figures of strange beauty that will converse from a distance with yours. Susan us are such a sweet and encouraging poetic traveler with us, we are all good traveling companions, along with the others that follow your discoveries.
ReplyDeleteSharon! Looks like everything that I know Utah is. Have you tried the Moab brewery? Any chance you will make it down to Cedar???
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Wow Sharon, I hope you CAN go to Cedar! I can only get to five letter places that start with "Ch" right now but I wish I could join you there! Please keep away from those mosquitoes. A few of them visited Taiwan, but we closed the window. In restaurants, beer is more plentiful (less expensive) here than wine and we have some, Taiwan Beer was good, and the Tsing Tao here is better than home, they save the best for themselves. Last night we had some very nice Jinling Beer, Jin is short for Nanjing, where we are. But we had easy adventures with wine tasting from local stores. Our last night in Shanghai we compared a Great Wall ($6) - it was light, and good, to a Carlo Rossi California Red, it says "Smooth Red Wine" on the label.($13) It had a lot more flavor and was really nice from here... we had never seen it before at home. (In Jinhua the French Bordeaux served by our host was amazing. but in restaurants that costs around $50 and we don't buy it...) I know Sharon since she is driving will be well supplied with the best. But back to the topic at hand... I wish we could make a stop in Cedar and sip wine with you both and hear Lynn play and see the red rocks together. Here they only have yellow ones. (We go to the Yellow mountains in a few days...) But they both match our house at home!
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