Tuesday 9/23/08
Time Traveled: 4 hrs 55 mins
Distance: 36.50 miles
Food Eaten: coffee w/sugar, eggs, red potatoes, whole grain toast, apricot cinnamon scone (shared), a few bites of apricot oatmeal pecan cookie, ice cream (shared), Probar, burritos (black beans, chilies, brown rice, salsa, string cheese, tortillas)
Our last and final voyage out of Moab started off wonderfully. We hit up Eklecticafe for breakfast, which serves homemade, fresh, delicious food made with organic ingredients. I think I have a new Moab favorite.
We were in high spirits when we headed out of town with no wind. Our trip was however, still long and grueling. Our asses felt all the hours and miles when we finally rolled into La Sal after 6 pm. The two public buildings in this town consist of a general store and a post office. We were lucky to get to the store before closing time as our food supply was running low. Ingredients for simple burritos were purchased and we backtracked 2 miles out of town to the LDS church.
This is where we set up camp for the night as there were no other options available to us and we did not have the energy or will to keep riding indefinitely. The church was a blessing with its soft lawn, but also a curse as we woke up in the middle of the night from the sprinklers. I had to run out of the tent naked and bring our gear under shelter of the vestibule.
I felt the sting of the cold water and I rushed to get back inside my warm sleeping bag. The sprinklers kept going long throughout the night and when they finally stopped, they started back up again only moments later. I fell asleep long after the ordeal, listening to the coyotes wail out to each other under the eerie, moonless night.
