Escaping the cold temps, Nov 7-8, 2010

The weather forecast for cold temps and snow for central Utah was not what we wanted to be in, so this year we decided to skip Moab and just drive south towards New Mexico.  So we drove for two days, stopping for the night in Grants NM, then on down to Deming, NM to spend a few days at the Escapees Dream Catcher RV Park.

Both days’ mileage totaled 694 miles, that is way more than we like to drive, but we were on a mission – warmer temps.

Sunrise north of Moab!!

Sad to say, only a glimpse of Arches NP this trip.

Upon entering NM, it was time to get out another states paper map, even though we have a trusty (most of the time) GPS, I always have a paper map on my lap or close to me.  This map also has AZ on the flip side, so with all its use it was time to tape the wear torn folds.

I am continuing to drive the coach some, getting ready to take the Texas drivers test (in the coach), as we are headed to Texas to become officially Texans.

By about 3 pm on Monday the 8th we were safely tucked into our RV site at Dream Catcher RV Park for a few days.  Yes, the temps were in the lower 70’s!

Sego Canyon and Crystal Geyser, UT

On Saturday we headed out to see Sego Canyon to find some pictographs and the ghost town of Sego.  Today we drove east of Green River about 25 miles.  What we found was awesome.  Pictographs and Petroglyphs and unfortunately some gringoglyphs (F B).

These pictographs were amazing, life size.

Then about a 1/2 mile further down the road to the ghost town of Sego. (John, wish you were here!  This ghost town has buildings!)

Then, back towards Green River, to find the Crystal Geyser.  Well here it is, it erupts every 12-16 hours, but, it had erupted only about 3 hours ago we were told, so…we did not wait around for next event.  But we did see this pool fill in to what is in the photo from a pool about a yard across.

The area around the geyser was very colorful.

Green River, UT, Nov 5-6-7, 2010

On Thursday, we all said our goodbyes knowing we would be seeing John and Judy over Thanksgiving in Fredericksburg, TX. We drove about 175 miles to Green River, UT. You ask, why Green River, I can answer that, petroglyphs, pictographs and red rock country.

So on Friday, we headed off to the Black Dragon Canyon located about 12 miles west of Green River. Well, we started out following a social trail and somehow we got off trail which led us up into this box canyon, hummm, nice spot for our lunch.

After lunch I looked down at the rock under our feet and saw fossils, clam shells! So at one time, this was the bottom of a lake.

We backtracked out of the box canyon and following Bob GPS found the canyon where the petroglyphs were, not to find them. Soon we came to the area fenced off and the pictographs (painted on surface).

Behind me are the pictographs, just too far away to see.

Here is the dragon, up behind where I am standing, for which the canyon is named.

The photo below also shows several pictrgraphs plus what they call gringoglyphs. It is so sad to see what some people do to deface these pictographs.

Then follow the GPS to our next destination, called Petroglyph Canyon. They are on the dark area behind Bob.

Very nice petroglyphs (pecked on rock).

We then headed back to the car, overall about a 4 mile hike today, great time and super scenery!