Sam&Alice's Photos:
Gallup and Moab

Updated on September 11, 1999

We started taking pictures again when we reached Gallup, NM.

We sat on this site in Gallup while I learned all about hydraulic slideouts.

At least it was a nice place to be stuck, though the black water tank was getting full.

The clouds were also nice.

Finally we made it to Moad and parked among rigs like the one shown to the right,

The weather and flowers were beautiful.

We got up the next morning for a river rafting trip.

Our transportation was an old school bus pulling our inflatable boats. The tubes on each side were about two feet in diameter.

We saw lots of scenery during the drive

Then we boarded our boats and headed down-river.

The guide on our boat was Taylor.

It is a fine time to look at the spectacular scenery on both sides of the river.

The topmost formation on the walls of the canyon is the Wingate.

This piece of sandstone looks like an old locomotive if you stare at it long enough.

An important part of any river rafting trip is the rapids.

There were more and more interesting cliffs and formations along the way.

We came upon a group of herons.

The other boat stayed close with us, and we often talked to one another.

At one point we saw several mule deer walking along the river bank.

The trip was very calm and delightful, not at all stressful.

At some places there were small creeks that came into the river. There you would find larger trees growing.

We stopped along a beach for lunch.

Finally we reached our pickup point and everyone came into shore. The bus was waiting for us and we were happy to see it.

One of our new found friends from the boat took a picture of us to prove that we had survived.