November 10, 2010,7:36 p.m., Wednesday

We've been incommunicado for several days because we were dry-camping in a lovely BLM campground on the Colorado River.  It is named Goose Island, but the "goose" calls one hears are really Ravens.

Directly in front of the campground, across the Colorado, is a huge redrock wall.  Across the road on the other side of the campground is another redrock wall.  The canyon between is just the width of the road, the campground, and the Colorado. 

We stayed there for a whole week, driven back into civilization only by the need to empty waste water tanks and fill the fresh water tank.  During the days we would tour the area, including the Arches National Park (amazing) and Canyonlands National Park.  The latter is in three distinct sections; we toured the two that are accessible by road.  The third is a hiker only "Maze" of redrock canyons.

We will stay here in the private campground through Sunday, most likely, as we both really like the Moab area.  Our next goal is Escalante National Park, which is south and west of here, across more mountains.

It snowed this afternoon, a wet snow that didn't collect anywhere.  However, the La Sal mountains, to the east of us, have much more snow than they had last week.  So, winter is coming, and we will have to watch the weather as we head west.