Beware the Goblins

After we spent 5 days in the woods, we headed East to the desert again. We drove a few hours to Goblin Valley, which is a State Park in South-Central Oregon. We came down here once when we lived in Salt Lake City and enjoyed it enough to come back. There are tons of VERY cool-looking rock formations that look like goblins, hence the name.

We didn't have a good start to entering our campsite. The campsites were situated pretty close to other campers and our neighbor lady, we call her The Wicked *itch of the West for good reason, made it clear when we arrived that she doesn't like dogs. As we unpacked our camper, she would say things like, "I don't know why they allow dogs in State Parks. People should just leave them in their backyards where they'd be more happy." Are you kidding me? She of course said it all loud enough for us to hear and it took all I had in me not to comment. Matt helped by taking me out so we could see the Valley of Goblins and the canyons for a while. Thank goodness The W.B. left the following morning. We have met some fantastic people on this trip and most people out camping in public places are understanding of other campers and are quite nice, but that lady should have definitely just stayed in her own backyard and should not have gone out ruining others' vacations. Afterall, 50% of the people camping in Goblin Valley (and everywhere else we've been) have dogs - I guess we were just the "lucky" ones to get the spot right next to her. Anyway, I've given her too much time on my blog. Just keep an eye out for her - all you with dogs!

With 90+ degree weather and no hook-ups (meaning, no air conditioning) it made it hard to sleep at night, but we enjoyed the area. I even tried to find a geocache that was suppose to be in the area, but after following the GPS for 45 minutes and coming to a steep cliff that I couldn't get to the bottom of, I gave up. Bummer, because I really wanted to find it. Obviously, I needed to start in the canyon. Oh well, I tried.

We stayed in Goblin Valley for 2 nights and are now in Moab, Utah where we'll be through the weekend at least. We absolutely love this area. We drove to Dead Horse State Park and Canyonlands National Park today, but after seeing Grand Canyon it all seems about the same - or not as Grand. What we really enjoyed was the drive along 128 East along the Colorado River. I'll update later with pictures of this area. For now, we have plans to head out and find another campsite for the weekend as we just found out it's Memorial Day weekend so many people will be in town (we don't know this stuff anymore because we don't WORK!) and also want to plan trips for white water rafting (me) and a motorcycle tour (Matt). Should be a fun week!