I guess we really DO love this place, as we decided to stay another day.
The first thing we did this morning was go to OVER THE EDGE SPORTS in Fruita to see if anyone was riding this morning. It rained a lot last night, so Eric thought it may be too muddy for a ride today. He didn’t find any riders at the store, so we went across the street to a little coffee house for a bagel and then went for a drive and found more horses to feed. We stopped at two different places until we had no carrots left.
We love feeding carrots to horses! My darling friend, Liz, who owns and runs horses at Belmont got me on this kick! Now, every time Eric and I see horses we have to pull over and out come the carrots! I want a horse of my own, but I guess that’s a dream that will probably never come true!
In the bottom right corner of the picture below, please notice the miniature horse. He was SO sweet!
There were also a couple of donkeys, but we fed them, too. We're equal opportunity feeders!
After our ride we went to DINOSAUR JOURNEY where we got to examine real dinosaur fossils, see a working fossil preparation laboratory, came face-to-face with life-like robotic dinosaurs and experienced a simulated earthquake!
It was all very interesting. Who knew there were so many dinosaurs found in Colorado? These mountains have a LOT of dinosaur stories to tell!
We worked up an appetite fighting off the dinosaurs, so we decided to get a bite, but we couldn’t find any more restaurants in Fruita, so we drove to Loma. All we found were more horses to feed! I have to say again that those of you living in big cities where there are restaurants on every corner just DO NOT KNOW HOW LUCKY YOU ARE! I figure people must cook a lot more, because we couldn’t find a restaurant in all of Loma!
Fortunately, I had some leftovers in the fridge, so I heated them up. We decided to go back to Kokopelli’s Trailhead to see if Eric could find someone to ride with. He had given some guys at the campground his number and told them to call him if they rode today, but he didn’t hear from them. There was no one around when we got here, so he took off by himself, but soon came back, because the guys called and were meeting him there. So, the three went out on a ride.
I stayed behind, as usual, and watched TV – MARTHA and DR. PHIL. It’s weird how good the reception is out here, in the middle of nowhere!
Eric always asks me to go riding with him, but I just don’t have any interest in riding trails. I’m hardly interested in riding bicycle paths, which are MUCH easier. I’m just not much of an athlete and that’s all there is to it. I was hoping we would have more opportunities to ride together on this trip, but there was only one place, in Massachusetts, where there was a nice greenway we could ride side-by-side on a paved road through a beautiful park. That’s my kind of riding – no traffic and no rocks, trees or logs to trip me up!
Eric got back to the RV with his riding buddies about 6:00pm and we took off for Moab, Utah, which was less than 2 hours away. By the time we got there, it was dark and we were hungry. We stopped at the very first restaurant we saw, which turned out to be one of the few we passed before we hit our campground – CANYONLANDS CAMPGROUND “In the Heart of Moab.”
The restaurant, BUCK’S GRILL HOUSE was packed and we had to wait about 20 minutes for a table (and this was a Tuesday night at 8:00pm!).
We started with two appetizers: the Smoked Catfish and Crayfish Cake (pan seared with breadcrumbs and topped with Southwest tartar sauce), and Artichoke Ceviche (diced artichokes marinated with fresh mozzarella cheese in a spicy tomato sauce). I had the Southwest Pasta (linguini pasta tossed with cilantro pesto and grilled vegetables. I LOVE cilantro, so this was a new and exciting taste sensation). Eric had the Duck Tamales (two tamales with adobo sauce and grilled pineapple salsa, pinto beans and rice verde). We finished off the meal by sharing a piece of Pistachio Chocolate Cake. We enjoyed everything so much. This was really a fantastic restaurant and we could see why it was so crowded!
After dinner we drove the 2 miles to our campground and settled in for the night. Moab is a happening town. We passed lots of great stores on the way to the campground, so I know I’ll enjoy some great shopping and Eric is really looking forward to a couple of days of great rides. We will probably stay until the weekend!