Caution: May Be Habit-Forming
It is scenes like this that keep us all coming back for more. It had been a few months since our last road trip and Kevin Benedict and I were starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms, which can include obsessively starting at each sunrise and sunset and muttering, forming "picture frame" hands around random things, envious perusal of other peoples' flickr streams, and constantly observing to spouse how great Iceland would be at this time of year.
We met up in Salt Lake City for a quick trip around Utah (in a Volkswagen Tiguan so cheaply made that I managed to yank the door handle straight off, but I digress). One of our stops was in Moab UT for visits to Canyonlands and Arches. We had a hard time finding accommodation because it turned out there is an annual car show in Moab and this was the weekend for it. It did make for some very entertaining and unusual sights on the street. I have to say that Moab seems like the new Austin to me, now that Austin has become so grown-up and touristy, it's not so "weird" any more. Moab is much smaller of course, but manages to capture much of the authentic individualist weirdness that Austin used to be known for. That's a good thing. Keep on weirding on Moab.
This is the well-known and frequently shot Green River Overlook. Of course, it's frequently shot for a good reason, because it is damned majestic and highly photogenic, and just a general pleasure to look at. A storm chased us up to the overlook and caught a few hints of interesting light at sunset before shutting it down altogether. I've not even been home for two weeks and I'm already trying to figure out the next outing. More to come from this trip.
Caution: May Be Habit-Forming
It is scenes like this that keep us all coming back for more. It had been a few months since our last road trip and Kevin Benedict and I were starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms, which can include obsessively starting at each sunrise and sunset and muttering, forming "picture frame" hands around random things, envious perusal of other peoples' flickr streams, and constantly observing to spouse how great Iceland would be at this time of year.
We met up in Salt Lake City for a quick trip around Utah (in a Volkswagen Tiguan so cheaply made that I managed to yank the door handle straight off, but I digress). One of our stops was in Moab UT for visits to Canyonlands and Arches. We had a hard time finding accommodation because it turned out there is an annual car show in Moab and this was the weekend for it. It did make for some very entertaining and unusual sights on the street. I have to say that Moab seems like the new Austin to me, now that Austin has become so grown-up and touristy, it's not so "weird" any more. Moab is much smaller of course, but manages to capture much of the authentic individualist weirdness that Austin used to be known for. That's a good thing. Keep on weirding on Moab.
This is the well-known and frequently shot Green River Overlook. Of course, it's frequently shot for a good reason, because it is damned majestic and highly photogenic, and just a general pleasure to look at. A storm chased us up to the overlook and caught a few hints of interesting light at sunset before shutting it down altogether. I've not even been home for two weeks and I'm already trying to figure out the next outing. More to come from this trip.