The day after leaving the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, I woke up in Dove Creek, CO to a warm, sunny morning and a sky full of puffy white clouds. The road to Moab was almost empty, and I was at the entrance of Arches National Park, just north of Town, by lunchtime. I stopped and filled up water jugs at the visitors center, and then headed up the road into the heart of the park. My first stop was […]