So we had planned on spending the night around Goblin Valley but we had a little detour...right about 20 miles outside of Escalante our tire blew. We had been off roading around Spooky Gulch (below) and got a small leak caused by one of the rocks. Nice. Incidentally, our tire overheated and blew. We drove back to Escalante and decided to camp at the same site again instead of continuing to the next town. Thankgoodness we did because the next town didn't have the tire that we needed anyway. We slept (and took showers!) and replaced the tire in the morning. This time with one meant for off roading. We were able to continue on to Goblin Valley. It all worked out anyway because it was sooo hot there anyway and we were able to stay in a nicer campsite.
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| Spooky Gulch. Narrow canyons that continue for 1/2 mile. Normally it isn't that muddy, but since it had just rained our shoes got covered! |
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| Jamir wanted a pic of Hector (our truck) after the off roading. It is covered with red mud. |
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| Second campsite. It was a nice place with a reservoir next to it. Heard some very loud geese in the morning! |
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| Showers behind us. I cannot express how happy I was about them. |
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| Where the tire blew |
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| Taking pics as we drive to Goblin Valley. I really like how light looks on the lens. |
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| Where we pulled over to fix the flat. Jamir wanted this for documenting purposes. Btw, everywhere else is a very soft shoulder. We were lucky it blew here. |
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| Almost hit this cow on the way there. And it had to run away when I got the camera out. |
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| Goblins! These are formed by erosion, ice, wind you name it. Really cool rock formations. It was too hot so we just took a pic from above. |
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| You can tell from the pic, but these rocks are very large. Way taller than people. |