Well, miraculously we all got to Salt Lake City on time today and after a SNAFU with going to the wrong FEDEX store, we started off for the long drive to Moab. But first we stopped for lunch in Provo UT. This is a pic of downtown Provo and the Church of Latter Day Saints.
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The drive was sometime boring and sometimes very interesting and sometimes just nothing for long stretches of road. Here is a set of wind turbines just outside of town.
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Also not far from town we say this active fire including helicopters dropping water
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There were some things to see though
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And there was this ...
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As we neared Moab, the scenery got much better
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The house is great and I'll post pics of that in a later journal. We assembled our bike as as usual, took a test ride up a steep hill
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And there was some good scenery here too!
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Here is a map of today's ride

We met this guy at the house
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And saw a beautiful sunset
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Dinner was at the Moab Brewery .. all in all off to a good start except for my flat tire woes .. more on that in later journals
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