| The background is a view off the Reef made into a "water-colour". |
Our Hotel for two nights, the Wonderland Inn, was plain but well located with a decent pool and cheap, though we ate both nights at the rustic and much more interesting Capitol Reef Inn and Motel. Here we met an elderly couple from Florida on their way back home from a tour to Alaska in a very dilapidated camper van! The Park is spectacular and peaceful. The beleaguered Mormons planted orchards, which the Park Rangers now look after, and the day we were there the Peach Orchards were open ....pick and eat as much as you like in the orchard and pay 50 cents a pound to take out. Spectacular! The thunderstorm the night before had washed away a part of the dirt road Burr Trail...we had considered taking it the next day en-route to Monument Valley. Our walk down the gorge to look at the water pockets took us past the Pioneer Register which was where the settlers carved their names on the rock as they crossed the Reef.
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