It was a nice drive from Durango to Moab, UT and we arrived
early enough to join friends John and Jane Canfield for BBQ at their campsite.
We are here for the 20th Anniversary of the FMCA 4-Wheelers, an
off-road group. John and Jane are staying at Portal RV Park, the host site for the
club’s main activities. We did not make reservations early enough, so stayed at
another RV park on the other side of town.
We spent the week at Spanish Trails RV Park. It is a nice
park with clean facilities and friendly, cooperative management. It is being
expanded, so there will soon be several new campsites available. The access
roads and sites are gravel and dirt, so it can get dusty, but there is a nice
patch of grass and picnic table at each site.
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| View from Spanish Trail at sundown. |
Trail rides were held each day except Thursday, which
featured a treasure hunt. The hunt was well thought out, and executed, but the
scoring got a bit messed up and there was no way to determine the winner. Each driving
day started with a trail ride at 9:00 and was followed by happy hour at 4:30
and dinner at 5:30. The weather did not cooperate and a couple of the dinners,
which were outdoors, were a bit damp. The Portal RV Park gave us a thank you
dinner and luckily they thought ahead and changed the venue to a large indoor
catering facility called the Bar M Chuckwagon. There were over three hundred club members attending this
rally and we were able to comfortably get them all in the Bar M while the rains
came down. We had a nice chicken dinner and a live band provided the
entertainment.
This was our second time in Moab, our first time driving the
trails here. For those of you that are familiar with this activity, we rode the
following trails: Seven Mile Rim, Fallen Peace Officer, Hidden Canyon, 3-D,
Long Canyon, Hells Revenge, and Hey Joe Canyon.
Sunday found us on the road again as we headed west to Zion
National Park.
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