We arrived in Moab Sunday afternoon with enough time to hit the Moab Brewery for a late Father’s Day lunch with a bunch of tasters and subsequent growler fill. When I asked about getting some tasters, the waitress mentioned that Utah law only allows two drinks in front of a patron at any time. I was able to conjure three as Kathy only had a margarita, so one could be in front of her. Utah is an odd place. Maybe if I was wearing some secret underwear they would cut me a break. Who knows.
On Monday early morning we headed out to Arches National Park. We arrived too early to pay to get in. Kind of nice… But that also meant the visitor center was closed, so we proceeded into the park sans map.
We stopped and took a few photos at Park Avenue and then at the Court House Towers. As of yet I had not seen an arch and was wondering if I had been sold a bill of goods. 
Thankfully we ran into a ranger who could give us a map of the park. Google maps is useless inside a national park. It shows the roads and that’s about it, so getting a map from that ranger was priceless.
Not far from the Court House was Balanced Rock. 
That was and still is amazing to me. You better come see that one quick.. I was thinking I should turn on the video recording as it looked like it should have fallen while I was there.
After we left there, we arrived at Sand Dune Arch and that was an awesome short hike to a narrow slot canyon between some huge rocks. Lots of red sand we hiked thru as the name implies and a small arch hidden inside there. It was maybe low 90’s getting there, but once in the rocks it felt like mid -70’s and cool. Could have stayed there all day!
Unfortunately Fiery Furnace was closed the day we were there, That sounded like something to see. I was not disappointed as I got to see lots of arches while there.
