The Road Trip: Day 3

July 28, 2014 We left our hotel early in the morning to continue our adventures.  Today was all about Arches National Park.  Arches was just as spectacular as all the pictures make it out to be. We did most of the hikes and saw some incredible scenery.  We didn't do the delicate arch hike for two reasons.  The first reason was there was absolutely no parking to the trial.  The second reason was it was already super hot and I'm kind of  out of shape.  We took the easy way out and hiked the viewpoint instead. We hiked a lot of the lesser known arches, but they were still just as beautiful. We may not have spent the entire day there, but we definitely saw some beautiful scenery and got some nice hikes in.  We didn't do any of the long hikes so we were back on the road to Salt Lake City by 2 p.m..

On a side note.  Dogs are not allowed on most of the trials.  At no point was Riddler ever let down from his carrier attached to Cody's chest. Even with that being said apparently just the smell of a dog scares away the rodents.  Lesson learned leave the "dog" at home.

Now have a look at all of our pictures and if you haven't been down to Moab, it's definitely worth a trip.

At the entrance to Arches

"Balanced Rock"

Delicate Arch from the viewpoint

Cody is a climber at heart

Me not so much

Trying to push this tree back in place.

The walls were caving in

Cody climbing to the top of the arch

Cody and Riddler relaxing on top of the arch

Stay tuned for what we did while in Salt Lake City.