The Wheels on the Bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. : September 2019

Moab - The adventure begins

Getting our annual Palisade peaches

Home for the next 9 nights. It's a tight fit, but it works.

Dave had the Crispy Chili Rellenos last year and for one year I have had to hear about how good they were.

Our RV park backs up to the high school. Tonight is Homecoming.

We arrived in Moab a couple of days before the rest of our group. So we hooked up with the local Jeepers for their monthly Saturday run. They were doing 3D, a trail we had never done.

Dee driving Elliott through the Pickle.

Kane Creek

Air down spot

Everyone choosing their line

Steve taking the high road

Cindy keeping all wheels on the ground

Lunch spot

Hamburger Hill

Airing back up at the end of the trail

Hole n" the rock is one of the most unique roadside attractions. Twenty-foot-tall white letters painted on the side ensures that you won't miss it, a 5,000-square-foot home carved into sandstone nearly a century ago. Today, it's a popular pit stop that pulls in about 500 visitors a day.

Daily happy hour and story telling

Poison Spider

Airing down at the trailhead

Doing the wedge

Wonder how the Poison Spider Trail got its name? Legend has it a little girl named Mary Jane Francis died here in 1896 due to a bite from a poisonous spider.

Overlook

Drone shot

Lunch overlook spot

Front row seating

Dave on Little Arch

There were 3 Dave's in our group today. When our tail gunner got on the radio and yelled
"Dave stop" all the Daves stopped!
Dave Turner couldn't have timed it any better. His tire came off and he stopped the Jeep on top of it. He had sheered off all of his wheel studs.

Half of us stayed to work on the jeep while the other half headed back to town to purchase parts and return.

The guys seeing who has the biggest wrench

Just waiting and waiting

Group shot from Johnny's drone.

Yea, the new parts have arrived from town

Letting the jack down. The repair is complete.

Made it back just before the sunset

Sun setting

Steel Bender

Johnny flying his drone

Going down the Fall

A little tipping for short wheelbases so not all of our group opted to go down the Fall

Those of us that didn't go down the Fall decided to make this our lunch spot so we could watch the next group of Jeeps go down the Fall.

Happy hour
We got kicked out of our usual spot. It was only 4 pm and someone complained that we were making too much noise.

Flat Iron Mesa

Lunch spot

Cryptobiotic Soil
These organisms work together to form a hard black crust that helps with preventing erosion, absorbing rainfall, and provides nutrients for the growing plants around it. Depending on how old the crypto is it can be anywhere from one centimeter to fifteen centimeters deep. The deeper crusts can be up to thousands of years old.

Getting around the tricky corner

Lasagna night at Pasta Jay's

Dome Plateau

Colorado River

Lunch spot

The gang

Built out of railroad ties.

They left the spikes in the railroad ties.

Remnants of a house built in the boulders.

The Dewey Bridge was constructed in 1916. It was designed to support the weight of 6 horses, 3 wagons, and 9000 pounds of freight. The bridge was significant for its outstanding engineering accomplishment and for its historical role as a vital transportation link connecting southeastern Utah with Colorado and points east. The Dewey Bridge which spans the Colorado River, was Utah’s longest suspension bridge and, at the time of its construction, was the second longest suspension bridge west of the Mississippi.