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Saturday May 24, 2003: Arches Nat.Park (UT)
WARNING : this text has been translated automatically from french
The watch of Fabien strikes with 5h30, the sun is raised. It is MEGA HARDWARE. After having taken a shower us to awake, breakfast in the room, with the window.
The rooms give directly on the gangway on the floor of the Motel, and a large window tinted separates us from outside, giving the impression to us to be observed by people who pass.
Back bag, filling of the car and with 7h10 one leaves for Arche... without forgetting to fill the tank with gasoline this time!
After a glance in Visitor Center, one arrives at Arches Park Avenue at 7h50. One crosses the park conveys some in direction of the carpark more in north, it is Devil' S Garden Trail which starts with 8h45.
The walk is very sympathetic, there are many people, it is as with the zoo, but it is pleasant too. The sun is very hot but the wind helps us to support it. The Arches are really surprising: Landscape Arch, Wall Arch, Double O Arch... well in the shade that made forget that with the return the weather will be very hot. One settles a little in withdrawal to contemplate Double O Arch and one begins our "traffic" of ice floes... hum...
With 10h45 one sets out again nevertheless and to the return one comes to see Navajo Arch and Partion Arch, it is pretty.
With the turning of the path, in a kind of small natural sanctuary leaned with a rock face, a multitude of small stone heaps is which people deposit as a wish. We proceed to the ritual and deposit 3 small stones...
One joined the car with 12h30 and one starts to have the flagstone, one decides to go spade to screw on strolls following: Delicate Arch. But there heat too is choking and the too exposed route, one finally decides to go to eat on the third strolls: Eden' S Garden.
It is 13h45, quickly find a shade, good, true as they are liked: one which esst fresh since this night!
And with the attack of what remains us of our chicken! Good idea. One is so much although one there will make surely a nap, hum, the stone is punt and smooth, what one is well ronquer! As soon as one finishes eating, as soon as it stops making wind... is especially if it does not threaten any more to rain... one finished in any event, outward journey one remballe, one will make the nap elsewhere. Of only one blow one hears sounds of thunder, the sky darkened and one feels even some drops. Let us move there!
14h15: carpark of Windows Sections, trotts it is short and they will quickly be done to return to put itself at the shelter if it rains! 14h45, the Parade of the Elephants beside Arch Double, me I cannot about it any more, it is the hour of the nap... Fabien leaves all alone and me I write.
I walk 5 minutes to arrive at Double Arch. The structure becomes increasingly impressive when I approach some and once arrived at its base it is too large to return in my objective great angle! I am obliged to carry out panoramic several photographs to have it in entirety. I climb along the rock under the double arch, a parabolic tilted plan leads me to the top: it is high! At the time of our return of voyage one will recognize this decorations in the Hulk film.
15h20 it reappears. Go one nevertheless will see Delicate Arch... in the car.
One sets out again of Visitor' S Center after having gotten rid of our "trashes", it is 16h15 (17h15).
One immediately finds the Motel in Green River, it is 17h00, it is pleasant doucher.
Like one is nevertheless hungry one makes the turn of Green River, the turn it is quickly said, more precisely say the outward journey return: it is a very right road which crosses a city all in length. Is this really a city? There are many Motels, restaurants, stations gasoline, some grocers and coffee, a "blind" and much of stores or buildings with different and completely given up signs, it is FAR WEST, it misses only the balls of straw which fly in the wind in dust and the table is perfect.
One will eat in Ben' S Café, it is him which appears "clean more" and in more there is meat: Rare T-Bone, very rare, really rare for Fabien, Salad Head for me, free refill die-CIF and especially one finishes in beauty: a true ICE CREAM vanilla! it is GOOD!
20h30 return to Motel 6 (room 209, like yesterday, hold!) and there I am able any more nothing to make, neither to sort the linen, neither to read, nor to write charts and not to even look at the tele one! I nap and when Fabien is ready it awakes me to sleep for good. It is 22h00 (23h00).
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