I-Dee-Hoe

Hay Ya All, I thought that we should up date before we leave here tomarrow. Here is just outside of Boise Idaho. We stopped here so we could visit with Chucks sister. We are not real impressed with the area. Boise is so busy and the traffic is so thick you feel like your a flea on a dog amoung an infestion!! Horrible. Nasty.
So we are staying about forty miles outside of that jungle city. It is a nice park with older trailers, but the people are wonderful. Usually when RVers pull up to a park such as this, they take a look and pull away. Lots of older trailers that are here for the long haul. We learned long ago that just cause there are older trailers and they do not move does not mean the people are not just as wonderful as the newer trailers. We have been proven correct once again. This place is called River Heaven.
Anyway, Here are a few pictures of the area. Unless the trees are planted there are none. How many trees can you count in each picture?? Bushes?? Shade??
Enjoy.

Chuck and I were geo caching.































Even the deer are dieing for a drink and some shade.


























































































As far as I am concerned, these were the prettest things out here.





























By the way Val, we should hit 500 today.

Arches National Park "Devils Garden"

Hello and good tidings to all. Lookie Lookie, we are posting more stuff about us. We just love to brag do we not?? We need spankings, we are so bad!! ha ha ha
We leave Moab tomarrow morning to continue on with our adventures. We actually have not been doing much of anything except laying around reading and relaxing for the last four days. We went to Devils Canyon in Arches National Park for a Geo Cache. We did not expect it to be the hike it turned out to be. We knew it was a five mile hike if we just walked in and out, but we could not do that!! It ended up being over a seven mile hike and when you see what we hiked, you will be as impressed with our old selves as we are. The reason for the four day rest is not the hike itself, we feel great (no soreness) but I got sunburned on my shoulders and back pretty good. I have needed to stay OUT of the sun, so hince, no hiking, no sun, just stay in shade. Today is the first day I feel not burned.
Ok, enought of my chatter, on with the pictures!!


The entrance to Devils Canyon. It looks like it is going to be such a lovely stroll does it not??


















This sign (I think you can click on the picture and get it to be bigger) tells you there is an arch in front of you. Cleaver them forest service peoples are.















Take a good look at this arch as it is falling to pieces. If you will notice from what the sign said, it is crumbling. This is probley the last picture EVER taken in the world of this arch. It probably fell down right AFTER we left the park. (Do you beleive that?? If so, we need to talk in person...I have a deal for you!!)















Now, I do not want to shock ya or nothing, but your going to see lots of pictures of holes in the rocks. These are called Arches. I love the rocks. There are so many colors and textures that go along with them. It is quite beautful. God does good work does he not!!
















This Arch was a really neat arch. We really had to hike to get to it as you can see from the background. That is me standing there, and the guy behind me is an Italian guy we have been following with his group of three others. He was the only one who spoke english. Did I mention the Canadian we picked up one the trail?? His name is James. We all became friends and he joined us on treck over Devils Canyon. We bonded through Water. (I shared my water with him. Poor guy had no idea he was going to meet us and be dragged all over Devils Canyon so he did not have a lot of water with him)
















This fin is part of the primative trail. Yeah, I went over that. Not by looking around either. I had to keep my hands on each side of my eyes (like those things they put on horses eyes to keep them from not shying when their pulling buggies) and James had to be there encourging me the whole way. ( ok, Chuck was in front, James behind me so I had no choice but to go) My knees were jelly. I do NOT do high places well. I did however make it alive.




















This is James, The Canadian we met on the trail. Notice he is smiling now. Just you wait James!! Your going to be crying later on!!

















This little jewel is Dark Angel.



















This picture looks like an elephant looking at you does it not. This was on the way back on primative trail. This trail was beautiful and such a cool trail. It would of been better if we had taken it when we first started out and when we were "fresh" instead of on the way back when we were dieing. Man, it was so hot out there.

I can not remember the name of this Arch, but it was so cool and pretty. I mean cool by shade. I was very happy about that. Lots of blessed shade.
















Some pictures of Fiery Furnace. These pictures are of a different day. These were a couple days before Devils Canyon. I can not write on all of them as for some reason they are set up different on the blog. You will just have to view and enjoy them. I do know for sure however, you can click on the picture and they will become bigger so you can see them. This was a canyon Chuck and I really liked. You had to go with a Ranger on a tour. (Yeah, they CHARGE you for this one...probley for the rangers services and then do not give HIM any of the money) Thats why the group of peoples you see. We were with a wonderful group of people. Lots of French people and Germans in Arches. We had lots of fun with them and I learned lots of different things about there country. The kids were great on this trip and very enjoyable. So since I can not write much further on, Enjoy these pictures and the next time we get on the blog should be probably a few days. We are headed to Boise Idaho to see chucks sis, and then to Sumpter Oregon to be with some friends. We will post soon. Take care of each other.

Utah Aug 13th

Hi Ya all,
I decided we needed the blog updated, and Chuck once again set it up so that we can tell everyone where we are at, what we are doing, and all that good stuff.
The most we have been doing is Geo Cacheing. We love this stuff as it takes us places we never would of discovered by ourselves. Place's most tourist just do not get to go.
Lucky for me, Chuck is also a very experianced 4 Wheeler. He used to belong to a club for years, so he and our trusty 4x4 dodge duelly have gotten us up hills, over sandstone mountains, and across the desert that most people only go with ATV's. I just love the look on peoples faces when we tell them where we went and they gasp with an open mouth and say "You TOOK your TRUCK there?" Yep, we did.
Unfortunally, some of the pictures I tried to take of where we were just did not come out good. Not that the camera is bad, but the perpersitive is just not there. I took a picture of us on a very narrow road with the Truck at a vertical angel (I just put the camera out the window and shot as I could NOT sit up in the seat) and the picture came out nice, but it just looked like we were skirting up a little rock hill.
This first picture is at a place called Onion Creek. The rocks are a deep purple color. I was pretty shocked to see a purple canyon. When the sun its this canyon full force, the rocks turn a deep red color.





















This was near another geo cache. It is called secret Spire. The way these rocks stay on here are amazing.



















I of course had to fondle it to see it anything else would happen to it (yeah right, like tip over) but it remainded as it was and did not move a bit.




















As hard as I tried, chuck just stood there. I could not get him to do anything I wanted him to do. Those of you who know me can just guess what I was trying to talk him into.
(Hay, that is nasty what your thinking...ever think about climbing to the top?)














This picture of me below is one of those pictures that do not do justice to where we were. My kids would NEVER of thought I would of climbed this sucker. We were HIGH. I mean, don't look down or your knees would wobble. This is near the top. Good thing I had on my spiderman cling to all sandstone shoes and my Batman sunglass's on. (I got my batman sunglasses in a cache...Iam keepin' them, they fit!!) Chuck even went a little higher than I did, but he told me not to go any higher. I think he was afraid I would not of been able to come down. Besides my spiderman tennis shoe's, and batman Sunglasses I have a sticky butt that allows me to come down any mountain face on rear power alone. Yep, I am set for climbing, not ropes needed here!!




















These are some formations of the rock in Onion Creek Canyon. Amazing how these can form like this staying in an upright position all these years while the rest of the rocks fall around them.
















These are just a few more of the formations. This was in a different canyon. We went here after a geo cache also. We had to walk on a very narrow path to get to the other side of the gorge for this cache. Wonder why Chuck did not show you all the scary path picture's?? Might be that persitive thing.

















Time and water do this to rocks that are sandstone.
















This picture below is of a hugh rock called Tomestone. I dont know if you can imagine how big this sucker is, but if you look at the base of this rock, where the straight up part starts, this is where we had to CLIMB to get a cache. It was scarey coming down.





















This was an arch at the secret spire picture towards the first of the pictures. I climbed up to look over at chuck. I wanted him to be proud of me that I will now climb rocks and go into scary places all by myself. He was not impressed, but he did use his zoom lens for this picture.















Ok, now on this picture below, do you understand now what we have been climbing??? Yes, great excerise. See, knee shakers for how high we climb.

















This picture is a beautiful sunrise that chuck shot while I was sleeping. He takes such wonderful pictures. Sometimes he will wake me for a beautiful sunrise, but not often. I think he enjoys some solitude without me yacking in his ear.














I do not know if you get the perperstive of what this is, but it is sandstone rock. That is one of the places we have taken our truck. Yeapers, straight up. Our neighbors just brought back our hub cab that we had lost on a ride a couple of days ago. Anna, she could not belive we went on such a narrow road, straight down into the river. She said it made her nervious on her ATV and could not imagine it in a truck. I am surprised chuck did not include the shot of having to use a boulder to flip the back tire on in order to get around the curve. I got out and took a shot of that trick. Must not of been a good perspective picture.















Thats my sweetie. Isnt he cute. This was at the canyon we had the narrow walk on (another knee shaker) on the side of a gorge. Very Scary for DeeDee's. Chuck is part mountain goat, the narrower the trail, the more he ignores it and just walks like it is a regular sidewalk.















This is a totally cool old cabin. It is a part sod cabin. It must of been about a hundred years old. We found this in the middle of no mans land. I could never image living in something like this with no water around. It looked like the corrals were for sheep.















This is part of a road we were on to get to that canyon below. (This is going to the canyon we lost our hub cap on) Doesn't that road look like you want to just do it at a clip of 50 miles an hour in the dark with your headlights off?? It was a pretty cool road. Like I said, I am so glad that chuck is such a good driver. It does not show how steep this road is. After these turns there are more hairpins and some on them are so steep you can not see over the cab of the truck. You just hold on and hope there is a road in front of you.















These next two pictures (read the sign if you can) is about a fur trapper. The next picture is of what he carved into a rock in the 1800's. You have to go way deep into the canyon to see this. Not many tourist get to view this need stuff. Again, we were after a Geo Cache.






























This is pretty typical of the rock formations in sandstone. It was very nice to sit under this cool rock and drink some nice cold ice water while the heat of the day makes you sweat all your fat away. I personally love spots like this and seek shade whenever I can while we hike.
















See our pretty truck. Don't you think it should be in a dodge commerical?? Than it could pay for its own fuel.
















My sweetie again. Notice I am well away from where he is standing. He will leap onto these rock ledges and tell me about the view I can not see. This is good, cause if I get any closer to the edge my stomach flops and my eyes go dizzy and I get scared rabbit syntrome. I even have my camera zoomed in out as far as it will go. He was way out there on this thing. Yes, I said he had to LEAP from one rock to another. He needs life insurance for me with BIG coverage on him.

















We had hiked (ok, I only got so far, this was one of them DeeDee only goes so far to rocks) up this hill. I was about a quarter mile up, and chuck went the rest with out me, it got way to steep. While I will sitting under my shady ledge, I took this picture. I was taking the picture because of how the rocks fall, but chuck thinks this looks like an eye and animal face. I say a frog or a lizard.
















Another picture of the canyon we drove into. Notice under those big rocks there is a little slip of a road. We were there. It actually is about a 200 foot drop from there. If you look real hard, at the bottom left you can make out one of the cars that did not make it. It fell over. There is a big flat rock and if you look directly across from it, you can make out the car body. Well this is it for now. We will blog some more after our hikes in Arches National park this week. Take care of each other and remember that money is nice, but family is a whole lot more important.