A few more notes about yesterday before we say good-by to this
surprising, beautiful hidden-away place.
First of all, thanks for your patience, blog-followers, during our one-week
absence. In these gorgeous mountains,
wi-fi access is hard to come by. We
spent 45 mins in the parking lot of a Best Western on Saturday afternoon
downloading pictures which used up so much bandwidth that we couldn’t do email
or anything else during that time, THAT's how dedicated we are.
All along our Sulfur
Creek walk yesterday morning, my eye was caught by peach-colored stones. Everywhere!
So I loaded my pocket with a handful of them. Sort of like finding all that mica glittering
at Sylvan Lake, so long ago. They almost
don't look real, they're such a pretty color, but you saw in the photos that
some of the geology really IS that color.
After our successful
wi-fi session, we took a little drive through the town of Torrey, which was
also settled by Mormons….it certainly had a wide main street. I spotted a little store called the Robber's
Roost which was a bookstore/espresso bar/gift shop and had a crunchy, promising
look to it. I saw a sign advertising a
Farmer's Market, but assumed it would already be over and done, as it was
approaching 4pm. Well guess what?! It STARTED at 4pm!! We bought freshly made pesto, and OG
zucchini and cauliflower and kale and cucumbers, goat's milk yogurt and the
best sweet little tomatoes. There were
also cinnamon rolls and still-warm loaves of sourdough bread for the gathering
throngs. Thankful and excited for
dinner, we came home and I cooked some really good food: ribbons of sauteed
zucchini topped with a sauce of tofu, onion, mushroom, fire-roasted tomatoes
and a lot of pesto, of course.
Cucumber-tomato salad and peaches for dessert of course.
So now, to summarize
all the great things about Capitol Reef and Fruita campground:
- Spectacular, jaw-droppingly beautiful and variegated scenery
- Free peaches, pears and apples to eat fresh off the tree
- Six kinds each of scones, pies and breads baked fresh daily and avail 25 feet from our RV. And homemade ice cream.
- Oh, and it's not humid at all.
- And the sky is hardly cloudy all day.
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| View from our RV |
Say, have I mentioned all
the Germans?!?!? Seems as though 2/3rds
of the campers here are German tourists. I can
spot them at 20 paces just by their shoes (seriously) It's been fun talking to
them. These days, when we encounter someone along the path we immediately say, "Guten Tag". It's just easier that way.
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