We left our hotel that we had stayed at for 4 nights; with full days of adventure in between. We stopped at a small café just down the road from the hotel, since we were in downtown Bluff before everything had closed we had more than 1 option this morning. At the moment I can’t recall the name of the café, I’ll add it once I check my billing summary on my debit card. We both really loved this place. The food was great, and the owner was awesome. This café also housed a lot of art work and jewelry and crafts from local artists in the area. I had pancakes made from blue corn flour, which is a local ingredient, and Lauren had oatmeal. Both were made with fresh local ingredients, which was a great change of pace from the backpacker meals and salami sandwiches we had been living on. We talked with the owner for a while about the café and everything she was selling and our trip, she was really cool and we enjoyed getting to talk to someone new on the trip.
We soon found ourselves beyond the city limits of Bluff and headed towards Moab. It was a relatively short drive, only a few hours. The drive was pretty cool, we saw some really look rock formations just off of the highway and also Wilson Arch, which is just off the highway almost at the turn for The Needles section of Canyonlands. Because the weather forecast was so cold for the nights and it had been so cold at nighttime in Bluff, we thought we would check out Moab and potentially just do day trips with Moab as our base camp for a few days. Much to our dismay, we both hated Moab. I’m sure in the summer time the place is rocking, as it is a mountain biking mecca, but it just seemed like a dead dumpy town. Because we had taken our time getting there it was starting to get late in the day and we didn’t want to make any rushed decisions, so we b lined it straight for the Moab Brewery. We figured the decision making process would be easier after a local beer. The brewery was not the coolest we’ve been to, just didn’t have any character unfortunately. The beer was ok, not great, but not bad either. We had some food, which was good. I had chicken wings and Lauren had a greek salad, which she really enjoyed a lot.
We then ended up in a hotel that neither of us was that excited about. We were able to get a good deal as it was technically the off season for them. But we decided then and there that we couldn’t spend several days, even 1 day, in Moab, or we would both be unhappy with the way we were spending our money. We figured we would try camping in Canyonlands. If it was too cold then we would reevaluate and go from there, but Moab wasn’t going to do it for us. We then did some research online and found a pizza place that had some good reviews and delivered. Paragon Pizza. When in Moab, I would say check it out; it was good and the delivery person was nice. We ate pizza and watched back to back Harry Potter movies on TV; we had to start refreshing our memory since the new Harry Potter movie was coming out in just about a week and we wanted to be ready! So we were fed and excited to have a plan. Moab was definitely disappointing; I think more so for me than fo Lauren.
The only excitement we had was reading the comments that people post on this blog. So, thanks everyone!
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