Moab Utah and Thai dinner

 Instead of domestic work which needs doing, I'm starting this post.

I need to take the rest of the plants out to the porch soon, but am going to wait a week or so, to make sure no more frosts are coming! The pansies kind of wilted, but Mellie Mac said just cut off the bad blooms and yellow leaves, and water water water them!

Where would you like to go with me this morning? How about Moab UT?  We drove through on our way to Arches National Park, and then stopped to shop a bit on our way back. Oh, and had a lovely Thai dinner at one of my son's and wife's favorite restaurants.

Early in the day there wasn't too much traffic.

We checked a couple of outfitting stores to get rubber tips for a walking pole for me to use. This one didn't have any. But the next one did, and off we went to the National Park (where we'd purchased our ticket at 7 pm the night before according to their directions.) 

A mural to share with Monday Murals!

After an extensive car tour of the Arches Natl. Park, and a side trip along the Colorado River, we returned to Moab.

A place to NOT stop!

This same water of the Colorado River will flow through the Grand Canyon and then towards the Gulf of California. (more later)

By the afternoon the traffic was higher. This is a popular "side by side" vehicle used in off-road travel. But there were also at least a few hundred jeeps with variations  of wheel sizes (sorry no pics of them!)

We shopped a bit (I had to bring some things home, after all, for friends.) Here's my son without sunglasses, and my new hat (which helped immensely with the sun!)

 We did enjoy looking around a co-op gallery of Moab artists. The other shop we stopped for a while was the Back of Beyond Bookstore, which had a bit of UFO tinge to it. The clerk at the counter was a North Carolinian too (like me). We didn't mention aliens!

But neither did I go to the far back or the store!

Thai Bella is in a very old building, once a residence in Moab UT with a stone saying 1896 over the window.

My Massaman Curry was delicious, and of course was good as left overs the next day!

Today's quote:

 Reality lives somewhere between matter and meaning. One makes us, the other we make to bear our mortality and the confusions of being alive. Meaning arises from what we believe to be true, reality is the truth that endures whether or not we believe in it.  Maria Popova in The Marginalian