We are now in Lafayette Oregon.

We were suppost to be still in Sumpter Oregon at this point, but due to a difference of option between Dianna and I, we have left there and went on with our lives. Hay, people change and stuff and sometimes friendships end. So life goes on.
So we came to see Tracy and her family. Oh what fun!!! Nate (the guy Tracy is going to marry) has a son from a marriage when he was younger. So we have a grandson. It is a trip having an instant Grandson. He is a lot of fun and is so excited to have more Grandparents. He is a loving, accepting little guy. Funny as heck too.
These are some pictures of us at the beach. We went there for a day and had a lot of fun. This is between Newport and Lincoln City.
















This is Kevin. Yep, eating. We had a picnic.
















Kevin and his mom (Tracy) built a city of castles. Pancho is checking it out. Outside behind Pancho is lots of dinosaur's that are outside of the city cause of the mote. They could not cross it cause it was to deep.















Ok, no beach is complete without getting splashed. Yep, me splashing Kevin. That water is stone cold let me tell you!!! It must of been 45 degrees. Nate and Tracy went swimming in it. Even Pancho thought it was way to cold. He got his paws in it a few times, but no more. For a dog that likes the beach, it was torture. Not at all like in Mexico. I love that Mexican warm water!!! Oh, kevin got away with just a little water on him.















On the way home we did some Geo caching. These next pictures are of a place that Nate and Chuck discovered while they were caching and took us to see. These are all made of Metal and are for sale. None are less than $6,000.00. Yeah, they have been there for awhile.





















This is really cool. It is bigger than we are also.















This is one of my favorites. A Pegasus.

















Pancho and I went for a ride on a motorcycle. He was not real impressed. As you all can see he was watching what Kevin was doing. He LOVES Kevin. They play a lot and Pancho needs to know EVERYTHING Kevin is doing in case he (Pancho) is missing out on something.
















Nate and Chuck did this Geo by themselves. This was going to be a fun place for us to take a picture of Kevin at. However, it did not pan out as it is on a very busy highway and you have to walk 100 feet on the road and we did not feel it would be safe for either Kevin or Pancho. There were berry vines, fast traffic and on a curve. Not good for kids, dogs or grandmas. However, what a cool place to stand!!!
















Now, we all got to get out at this bridge. It is a covered bridge that was rescued by a family. Really neat place.


















This is the bridge.
















These are carriages on there property. They have horse's (we did not go and pet them as there was a sign saying please no trespassing) and do carriages. This was a great thing to see parked next to the bridge. Same time span as when the bridge was in its hay day.
















This was a really big wagon. Kevin was much impressed with it. I was to. However, I would of loved a ride in the black one.
Ok, this is it. We are now getting ready to go to Tracy's. I am going to post pictures of Tracy and Nate next time. I will write more later. Sorry for waiting so long before posting.

The last of Moab.

Hello and good tidings to all!!!
This is our last day in Moab. We head out tomorrow morning. So our computer will be down for about three days unless we decide to stop for a couple days along the way for some ATV exploring.
These next few pictures are what we have been doing this last week.
This picture is called Stick. It is a game that puppies play. Here is Pancho and Maggie playing stick. No one is ever the winner in stick as it is a chase and run game. Then some how the Stick in the stick game gets lost. No one can EVER figure out how that happens, but it is part of the game so we just accept it.















When we had gone out to ATV at Cameo Cliffs it was an all day trip. Lots of fun. However, upon returning to camp we noticed that someone had parked a rig really close to our camps. I am talking really close. All Chuck and I could say as we drove closer was why would someone park so close to us. Did they not know that there was other camping spots?? What fools, or morons would invade our personal space?

These are the fools or morons.

Maggie belongs to these two humans. This is Shelley and Tiffany. This is the surprise that no one was expecting. What a wonderful surprise to. Shelley is Wayne and Anna's son and Tiffy is the daughter in law. They are just as wonderful as the parents. We are so enjoying this family. They are so so nice and funny. Love that funny stuff. Guess there was no fools or morons!!! Joke is on all of us!!!!















Oh, see that little person on the white sheet? That is the other part of the family. Lydie Anna Rose. She belongs to Tiffy and Shelley. Oh, and of course she is Grandma and Grandpa's girl.
We are all relaxing under a rock and having our lunch.















Maggie. She is so so so cute. I just love this little girl. These people have until tomorrow to decide if they want me to take her off there hands. Somehow I get the feeling that Lidya will have the final answer and that will be a NO. They are the best of friends and she and this puppy hug each other often during the day.















Chuck walked out and got this picture of all of us eating and relaxing. I was not going anywhere as it was HOT and I was sunburned from the day before. We sure do choose places to stop and relax do we not. It is so beautiful here and what could be more perfect than a beautiful place to picnic with friends?? Ok, the most perfect would be to have our family here also, however, someone has got to work so we can be supported in our old age!!! (I think my kids are going to kill me for that statement!!)
















These are the days now before Shelly, Tiffy and Lidya got to us. We are at Tusher Tunnel. Notice we are toasting the stop with Musties!!! It was blazing hot outside, cool in the Tunnel and refreshing with the ice cold Musties. AAAAHHHH.............















This is a canyon that Chuck and I went to searching for a Geo Cache. It was so pretty. It is a box canyon with a pool of water at the end of it.
















This is looking down from one side. Actually, this is the side I accidentally dropped our water container off of. It smashed.
















This is looking up from the canyon floor. Yep, no crows Pancho. (He has this thing about birds, especially crows, he will run after them as they are flying trying to catch them. Yes, barking is included. Damn crows!!)














Oh Look. Lydia Anna Rose sitting on her ATV getting her drink on. Yes, she was talking to me. She is so cute and so even tempered. The only time she cry's is when she gets her hair washed or some damn cactus jumps out and gets her. That has happened only once. It was a sneaker cactus. Chuck knows all about those kind to.
















Cameo Cliffs.

This is a ride that Wayne and Anna took us on. Beautiful. Take a gander at the colors of these cliffs.
















This is called Indian bath tub. Don't ask us why. The tub was dry. That ladder is heavy and there for the duration of time.
















I dont know where Chuck took this picture at. I never seen it. Probley while he was in the tub.Do you all think this is a real indian art work on the rock?
















This is a shot he took while he was in the Tub. Notice our little Quads in the shade down by the road.

















Backside, Wilson Arch.
Wilson Arch is on the run we were doing at Cameo Cliffs. Pretty.















I am giving Duffers a rub down in the shade. She was so enjoying this rub down. If only the shade would extend to her nose!!




















This was so cool you guys. It is an old house built into the rock. Old Corrals still in good shape to. Ready to move in. After you clean out the rat shit.















Part of the old house. Actually, this is the outside of the house. See, Windows and everything.















This is an arch we discovered. I know it looks like an eye, but we had a Mustie stop here so we all named it Mustie Arch.















Chuck went up to Mustie Arch and took this picture of us and the Quads below. That man really likes to be a mountain goat does he not!!! Heck, he gets some dang good pictures. Me, I was making the Musties. I have my priorities. (Chuck taught that to me years ago)















Looking Glass Rock.















Don't let my smile fool you. I was scared shitless to be up there. Notice I am holding onto the dog. Like the dog needed it!! Of course chuck did not get a picture (or he just did not put it in here) of how high we were, but look at the background on the other side of my leg. Yeah, that was high.















These next pictures are at a place that Wayne and Anna took us to called Fins and Things.
I really enjoyed this ride, although I did have to get off alot and walk up hill as some places were pretty steep. (Damm it I hate when I miss out on fun)
This is a fin. This is a picture of Wayne leading us on a downhill fin. It is a bit steeper than it looks, but so so much fun.















This picture is one I had to get off and walk up. Chuck is up and leaning forward on the Quad so the front tires will stay on the rock. Wayne is watching to make sure things go good.















This is a picture of the fins from a distance. NOW you can see how steep they can be. Pretty are they not.














On this fin it is called dinosaur rock. That is suppost to look like a dinosaur.















Chuck taking a picture of a canyon. See how damn close he gets to the edge.
Actually this it the top of Moonflower Arch.


















Fins N Things.
Chuck going up a steep one.
















I could not ride on this ride. Someone has to stay behind when one is riding shotgun and I am the one who got shot off. This is the rest of them coming down a really steep fin. Believe it or not I am a ways away. I had to really zoom in for this picture. It is times like this I wish I had my own Quad as sometimes I get to miss out of the fun stuff. Oh well, cry me a river, take the dang picture and stop being a baby!!!















This is Anna and Wayne keeping the front wheels on Chucks ATV on the rock with a rope. See, told you these fins were steep. See why I could not ride also.















Coming in for a landing!!! This is our last picture for this series. You all take care of each other and we will be up and running soon. Depends on what takes our interest and how long it takes to get to where we set up!!

More around the Moab Area.

Today was a hiking day. We went to Corona Arch, and the little one is bowtie. You will see them soon. Going in was interesting. This is a rail road we had to cross to get on the start of the trail.
We only had to walk 440 feet uphill from the car. That is not bad concerning some places you walk over a thousand feet up.




















This is Corona Arch. It was so worth the walk. So pretty. We walked a mile and a half in and a mile and a half out. It really did not seem like all that long. Pancho put on a whole lot more miles with his hunting and running all over the place.

















If you look way in the back, you can see Bow Tie Arch. This is some of the rocks were walking on. Niffty.














Here I am in my funny hat talking to a young newly wed couple from some country. I can not say the name. It used to be the check republic but now it is some other name. I can not keep up with all these countries changing there names everytime another war is done with. There accent's were awnsome and they were a really sweet couple. No, they are not small people, I was standing a a little ledge.















A closer picture of Bow Tie arch.















Now that is an even better picture of Bow Tie arch.
















Anna thought these looked like two eyes. I think she was right. They were pretty cool. They over look Corona Arch.















This was a pretty cool sight. It was a tree growing out of rocks. There is waster there all the time (well, dribbles and that makes water) so this tree started with no soil. Nature is amazing.















On the way to Hurrah Pass.


This is another day. Notice these rocks. The canyon was like this a few miles down. It was very pretty.














One of our wonderful views from the ATV.
















The Catacombs.

On our way to Chicken corners, there are these rocks called the Catacombs. There really cool, all these cave's going from one to the other. It was very nice and cool inside these catacombs. This was a beer/water stop coming and going, and chuck found a Geo Cache at each end of them.
















Does this not look like a lizard head???
















I think that Wayne is checking the calories in his beer, or maybe the alcohol content.
Or he might be crying cause it is gone.
















The Stuck Jeepers.

See the mud hole?, they didn't. See the jeep? It was in the mud hole.
We stopped and helped these three kids out. They had gotten stuck the night before in this mud hole. To bad we did not get a picture of before, pulling them out and after.


















ATV's to the rescue.
This is the end. We are putting the wench cables back in properly. All three of our ATV's hooked onto there strap and we wenched that puppy right out of that mud.
















We were told by the kids we were there heros. It is a nice thing to help someone else. They were ALL smiles when that jeep came out of there. The girl looked about six or seven month's pregnant. Good thing they were going to camp for a night that night cause they had there tent.

















Chicken Corners.
There is a reason this place is called chicken corners. See that walkway one must pass on to get to the other side. This girl was chicken and stayed at the other corner. Chuck is not a chicken and walked it. Him rooster, me chicken. cluck, cluck!!















This is a viewpoint from chicken corners. Very pretty. Very quiet. Well almost, we did have Pancho with us, and some nice people came riding in on their motorcycles. Of-course Pancho wanted to attack the motorcycles and the people to. I had to hold his little ass back. He can be such a beast!!!

















MOONFLOWER CANYON

We (Chuck and I ) stopped here for a Geo Cache that was not here. However, this was interesting. This is a step ladder that the Indians used to get over the cracks and crevices of the mountains. It went up there a long ass way. No, I did not try to climb it, and neither did chuck. We discovered this after our long day in the sun going to Chicken corners.




















If you all look carefully (or click on the picture to enlarge it) you can see the ladder and how far up it goes.




















There were some writing on the walls from the Indians. Click on the picture to get a better gander at the writings. There are mountain goats and animals, and the large thing with the head is suppost to represent the canyon god.

















Dead Horse State Park.


As you can see in these pictures the fires up North have been bad on the visibility here in the Moab area.

This is on the overlook at dead horse state park. You can see the Colorado River way down there. It is called Dead Horse cause a bunch of cruel heartless bastards (may there soles rain in hell forever with the horse's trampling them forever more in enterinty) trapped some wild mustangs and cut out the ones they wanted for saddle stock. The rest they left up there to die. The sign says they were left there by accident. I say yeah right, they were buckaroo assholes who had the sense of spit and were heartless ass's that did not want the horses grazing on land there cattle were one. Not a lot here in the sense of feed anyway. Ok, enough of my ranting, ya all get the point I am making.















This is another viewpoint. This is the area the horse's were stuck on.















So Anna and I put our bad feeling away (Dead horse hurt ones feelings ya know) and we went to a nice little table rock for a sip of Mustie's!!! Cheers!!!















Then we looked down and thought "Oh my gosh, we better get off of here"!!
No, not really, actually, this is another spot by the visitor center. We were doing a geo cache. Notice that in that blue area on the side of the mountain (yeah, on the slippery part) there is a trail!!! What FOOL is going to walk there??? OK, fine, my chuckie would for a geo cache, but we all know he is a rooster and I am a chicken so he will be walking alone!!















This is a very nice and pleasant picture. Just a little tree enjoying its life on a rock edge. Notice the dang thing growing OUT of the rock. These dang trees are just amazing.
So until next time, see ya all on the flip side. Take care of each other.