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Only a few days late! The laptop battery seems so far to be good, so that's pretty cool.
Thursday was our main day of vacation, when we went into Utah and visited Arches.
The Double Arch, one of my favorites. With a rando for scale.
And a nice shot of some of the canyons, looking toward the mountains. And a dramatically posing raven on a dead bush.
( 5 pictures NOT from Arches: )
With the new "timed entry" reservations, we had to kill a little bit of time before we could actually go into Arches. I don't *mind* the timed entry thing, I guess - it's supposed to decrease congestion within the park and "improve the visitor experience". I DO find it just kind of... conceptually annoying, because I dislike the idea that you have to potentially know *months* in advance exactly what day and time you're going to be there, because that's how far in advance the times open up. I also rolled my eyes at the "it's free to reserve a time, however there is a non-refundable $2 processing fee."
1:00 was the earliest time we could get when I discovered the reservation system a couple weeks ago. But it turned out to be fairly good timing - we only had about a half hour to kill. We drove on to Moab and hit a souvenir shop for kitschy stickers.
( 11 more pictures: )
It was a very nice trip, and I was glad we got to go! Kind of a bummer that it was as hot as it was, but not utterly unexpected for the timing.
Thursday was our main day of vacation, when we went into Utah and visited Arches.
The Double Arch, one of my favorites. With a rando for scale.
And a nice shot of some of the canyons, looking toward the mountains. And a dramatically posing raven on a dead bush.
( 5 pictures NOT from Arches: )
With the new "timed entry" reservations, we had to kill a little bit of time before we could actually go into Arches. I don't *mind* the timed entry thing, I guess - it's supposed to decrease congestion within the park and "improve the visitor experience". I DO find it just kind of... conceptually annoying, because I dislike the idea that you have to potentially know *months* in advance exactly what day and time you're going to be there, because that's how far in advance the times open up. I also rolled my eyes at the "it's free to reserve a time, however there is a non-refundable $2 processing fee."
1:00 was the earliest time we could get when I discovered the reservation system a couple weeks ago. But it turned out to be fairly good timing - we only had about a half hour to kill. We drove on to Moab and hit a souvenir shop for kitschy stickers.
( 11 more pictures: )
It was a very nice trip, and I was glad we got to go! Kind of a bummer that it was as hot as it was, but not utterly unexpected for the timing.
