Capitol Reef - Day One

After visiting Goblin Valley, we drove on to Capitol Reef. We spent the afternoon driving around and seeing the sights. We did walk over towards Eileen's camel. Along the way, we discovered a lot of petrified wood lying around. Rick would have loved to have some but didn't take any.
This is Eileen's camel. There are no signs pointing this out nor is it on the map. But the first time we visited here she saw this formation and named it. It is one of her favorites in the park.
We drove out to Cathedral Valley and spent some time there. This is Glass Mountain there. Very unique and interesting.
Twin Rocks are near the camel.

This is also from Glass Mountain. It was dark by the time we got back to our motel. Tomorrow we plan on walking the Grand Wash. Something Rick and Eileen haven't done since just after getting married. Neal & Annette had never been so should be fun.

More pictures on our fickr. Be sure to check them out.

Goblin Valley

Many of you have commented that we haven't posted for a while. Yes, we have been busy getting the garage finished up so we could move stuff out of storage. However, our dear friends, Neal & Annette came to visit us so we took some time off and did a few fun things with them. The first weekend they were here (May 10-11) we went to Capitol Reef. On the way we stopped and spent a couple of hours at Goblin Valley. None of us had been there before and we had a great time walking around in it. We still didn't get to see it all.
What a great place for kids. They were running around and climbing on the rocks and in general having a great time. Wish we had known about this place when our kids were smaller. Great place for them to run off all that extra energy they get when riding around on vacation.

More pictures on our flickr. Later I'll post from the rest of the trip to Capitol Reef. We sure had a great time.