Thursday, October 5, 2017

Arches National Park


Arches NP was the northern-most of the Utah parks.  It was a considerable drive from Bryce up to Arches, but for us Easterners, every vista was new and delightful.  The scenery is indeed something to behold.  We had a hotel reservation near the park entrance in Moab- or so we thought.  When we got to the hotel, for the only time the whole trip, we found that the reservation we had made…was NOT to be found by the hotel.  Out of 7 nights in hotels and one night of camping, that is really pretty good.  It turned out that the messed-up reservation worked to our benefit, as it allowed us to leave the park on go straight to Grand Junction, saving some time and money.  Thank you, L^rd for a failed reservation.

Arches is a very interesting place.  The composition of the rocks there,  combined with the wind, rain, and ice results in many beautiful rock arches, hence the name.

It was amazing to us the beauty and variety resulting from weather and rocks.  The colors varied from red, to almost white to brown.  The rock formations were likewise different, and with a little imagination, you could see all sorts of animals and even people in the rock shapes.

Andrew and I made a pretty long, hot, dusty hike to the Landscape Arch, then on to the Perspective Arch with its huge “window”.  We visited another arch, up near there, which was smaller, but till with its own beauty.

So, what did we learn in Arches NP?  Well those things that eat away at us, those things which wear us down, may well be producing in us a beauty that we do NOT see right away. The arches didn’t come into being overnight, and neither do we.  Those things bugging you, tiring you, trying your patience, can be destroying you or making you beautiful.



Think about it.

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