2024 Cross Country Trip: Day 5

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Today we didn’t really do any riding. The weather was very crappy so we just hung out and got a late start. We discussed what we wanted to do and decided to just spend the day in Moab and extend our stay another night.

With the crappy weather, we found a NAPA in Moab and walked there to buy new bulbs for my bike. My headlights burned out on the trip. The first low beam died on the second or third day and my other low beam died last night when it was dark. After stopping at NAPA, we stopped in some shops to see about getting shirts and stickers to add to the bikes. I actually had a t-shirt made up. After shopping for a little bit we got back to the hotel and the weather cleared up.

We were looking around and Eddie found this road that parallels the Colorado River towards Potash that had some features we wanted to check out. There were petroglyphs on the rock walls which were different and unique.

From there we continued down the road to see Corona Arch. It was a 1.5 mile round trip hike that takes you to two arches; Pinto Arch and Corona Arch. Corona Arch is massive! It’s 105 feet tall and 140 feet wide.

After finishing we needed to hydrate. It was warm and we didn’t have enough water. So, we went back into town to get some Gatorlytes then head out for some food. We skipped lunch to take advantage of the break in weather and went to Jax’s which was really good! While we were there, more thunderstorms came rolling through so we watched and tried to capture some lightening strikes.