Home and Abroad – travellers tales and fireside chats
Leaving Moab and heading towards Salt Lake and Park City to see a tourist main street we happened upon a sign proclaiming Historic Helper! With a name like that you just have to drop in, and anyway we needed gas. So we pulled in and walked around a bit. To say Helper is a ghost …
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The Lunar/solar eclipse witnessed from Arches National Park yesterday proved a highlight. Lots of people gathered in various spots to view the phenomenon helped by Park Rangers who handed out the special glasses to share. A party atmosphere with total strangers getting to know each other via this amazing celestial event up a mountain in …
Yesterday's desert mountain experience has finally sunk in, we were lucky! A flat tyre could have been a disaster as we had no communication,and nobody knew where we were least of all us. So aside from lighting fires and sending smoke signals we had no idea what else to do in an emergency. Fortunately we …
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There is a childhood book I remember called We didn't mean to go to sea. We didn't mean to end up on dirt roads in the middle of the Henry Mountains Range, but we did after a visit to Natural Arches State Park, a ferry across Lake Powell and a short diversion that should have …
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