Moab, Utah 2008

Every year, Jed's boss at Mountain View Engineering takes the office out to Moab, Utah. We stayed at the Moab Valley Inn, getting there Thursday evening and leaving Saturday morning. Our big adventure was going mountain biking all day Friday. This year Jed’s parents (Nana & Papa) watched the twins. We missed them terribly, but we know they had more fun with them then they would have with us.

Thursday night, we caught the movie Eagle Eye with our friends (and Jed's co-worders) Matt and Amanda, and then had dinner at the Moab Brewery. The movie was interesting, and dinner was great.

The next morning we began at around 8:00 AM at the trail head of Slickrock, a famous trail for Moab. The 1st part was oober technical, and we (Desi more than Jed) had to walk our bikes more than once. The middle was great, with so many beautiful views. It was around 10 miles, going up and down, up and down. And it took us around 3 1/2 to 4 hours to do. By the end, our legs were burning, and our tire tread was nearly bald, but it was awesome. Here’s the website, if you wanna read more about it: http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/slickrck.htm.

After lunch, we were off again, this time on the Bar-M and Circle-O trails. The Bar-M is more of a mild dirt road trail, but half way through you can detour off and ride the Circle-O. That trail, like Slickrock, is all sandstone, but there’s not as much elevation change, though its really bumpy. These routes totaled nearly 10 miles, but we finished in less than 2 hours.

After riding all day, we went back to our hotel and soaked in the hot-tub, and joined all of Jed’s work people for dinner at the Sunset Restaurant overlooking Moab. We were so exhausted by the time we got back to our hotel, we could hardly keep our eyes open.

The next morning we were anxious to get home, though we stopped in Provo to do a little birthday shopping. All-in-all, we had a spectacular time! Can’t wait ‘til next year.