Wednesday 3/22

Up by 6:30, on the road with a cup of coffee by 7:00.
You know me, not much grosses me out about poop. I didn’t take a picture of the toilet facilities at Onion Creek but it is a concrete pad with a normal outhouse seat. No roof, a L shape wooden enclosure and a chain that you put across when “occupied”. You should never look in these toilets.Of course I CAN’T stop from looking. BAAAAD. I should of known just from the smell but professional curiosity won out. What we call out here a POI.
Soooo, anyways off I go to Fisher Towers. #4 gravel. THERE IS SO MUCH TO SEE that you are constantly shifting your gaze and you got to remember to look behind you ’cause sometimes that’s the best view. There is a trailhead and a lot of bikers getting ready to go off. I turn around,… look around… and blow out of there.
Heading back towards Moab I see a road to Castle Valley and it looks like it ends up close to Moab. Off I go on nice old pavement. Beautiful canyon and I get 25-30 miles up and road sign says ROAD CLOSED MILES AHEAD. No number telling me the miles. But the sign is new(see video). Oh, I thought about it. Because there was no number maybe “it really wasn’t closed”…….. turned around and headed back to UT128.
I’m going to start taking pictures of some of people’s campsites. You’ll see why after I post a few.
Into Moab. And to the market. I need propane and I haven’t had running water, so no shitter, no shower in the camper since leaving home. I score both at the same little LP distributor. I had bought some bleach to sanitize the system. I really felt that for a guy of my capabilities easy peasy. What a bloody mess! I need to devise a better way for the hose to stay in the fill. I finally got the bleach in but it wasn’t pretty. Oh well, now I just need to drive for a while and use the water up flushing toilets then refill. At least I can take a dump if I ever run into another Utah open air shitter.
I got hold of my IT guy, my personal assistant and talked to John Geiger. Depending on the whims of my travels, John and I may meet up next week.
Still heading south on 191 thinking I’ll get to Monticello and Canyonlands NP. Got sidetracked to Needles Outlook. You are on the plateau above the Colorado, like a smaller Grand Canyon. Very nice Outlook with helliious views. Decide that I would wild camp just down from the point.
Nice spot , right on the edge (not RIGHT of the edge Allie) and set up camp. It was a little breezy and overcast. Had some lunch,walked around, changed hats from straw to baseball cause the wind kept trying to take it away. Moved inside cause it was getting windy. No cell coverage so I decided to read. The camper was rocking with the gusts. THEN it started to BLOW. Sand storm blow. WTF? Do I wait it out? Do I retreat off this point? Will it blow me right off the bloody plateau!? My stomach said go, so I did. Within 5 minutes I was on pavement. Drove back 20 miles to a campground I had looked at on my way to the Outlook.
Nice spot, no wind and some Good Samaritan left a slug of good firewood. All and all. A nice gut reaction!
Intermittent cell coverage not sure I’ll be able to post. I’ve got a backlog of three days now with pictures. Need decent coverage. Planning driving out to another Overlook tomorrow hopefully coverage will be consistent.
“Harry, if it doesn’t feel right, just go” Sage advice.

Miles:
HWY: UT128 – US191
Temp: low 60’s

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