Thursday was beautiful, so we hopped in the Samurai for a drive to Ten-Mile Point, which is pretty far away from Moab, but has a bunch of beautiful overlooks of the Green River.
On the way, we drove up hwy 313 (the Dead Horse Point road), and took a short hike to the top of the head of Seven Mile Canyon, where there were rumored to be some ‘bridges’ (ladders) built by Glen Ruby in 1903. Last week, we hiked a LONG way down into and then upstream in Seven Mile Canyon, and didn’t go quite far enough. This time, we found them! In the first photo, you can see the lower ladder below and to the left of Rich and Mindy. The third photo is the remnants of the upper ladder, destroyed either by nature or stupid people.
We arrived at Ten-Mile Point, set up our chairs, and hung out for quite a long time. For those of you not acquainted with the area, it’s not like the national parks and scenic areas you’ve been to. It is at the end of a long, dusty four wheel drive road, and there are no facilities…no visitor center, no barbecue grills, no parking places. It’s amazingly primitive, and wonderfully quiet. I think you’d have to be there for weeks to see another human being. There WAS, however, a curious Pronghorn Antelope checking us out.
It was a great day. I like having a little ‘vacation’ every week with Rich.
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*Some of the photos this time were Rich’s*
On our second morning in Phoenix, we made it out of the motel at about 9:00 am (after a nice breakfast of cold Cafe Istanbul leftovers), heading for Boyce Thompson Arboretum (which is about forty-five minutes east of Phoenix). The road to the Arboretum goes through some low mountains, and there were tall pink Penstemons on both sides of the road. Beautiful!
Here are some photos, in no particular order, from BTA.
Here’s the one and only new plant I brought home from Phoenix. It is Haworthia herbacea. I love it!
After several lovely hours at the Arboretum, we drove back to Phoenix, and had a lovely late lunch at a little diner right next to the motel called Jim’s Coney Island Cafe. I had a really good tuna melt (which I am always on the lookout for – I LOVE a good tuna melt). Mom had a bacon cheeseburger, which she said was great.
We relaxed in the room for a little while, and then Janelle came to the motel and picked me up. We went out to have dinner and drinks. It was great to see her. We went to a place called Crave. The food was really good. The garlic fries were amazing! I had a beer, and Janelle ordered the sangria, not realizing it was a whole carafe of it. It was delicious, and she was nice enough to share! 
That’s me, drinking out of the carafe, and me and Janelle at Crave. The photos are phone pictures, and it was dark, so they aren’t great.
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