On the Road Again

We'll be heading for home today. We packed a lot of fun into just a few days, and I think we are both ready to make the drive. We'll be traveling on some different roads this time, taking I-80 from Salt Lake City, which will take us past the Great Salt Lake. After that, we'll travel through Nevada into Southern Oregon and then north to Portland.

Before we head out, I have some pictures from our last day in Moab. We had breakfast at the Jailhouse Cafe. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, it's kind of a tradition for us. They make really good Eggs Benedict, which is Mike's favorite. I had one of their mega scrambled egg plates. Delicious and impossible to finish.

After that, the quilt shop was just around the corner. I've visited and blogged about this quilt shop before, and it's a really good one. It seems small on the outside, but there is a lot of cute stuff inside. They also carry a lot of regional fabrics and patterns from local designers, which I like when I'm traveling.

I loved the "Sewkopelli" outside the front door. So cute.

Do you want to see what he's sewing?

Want to see what brand of sewing machine he's using?

The Sewkopelli so delighted me that I had to purchase this pattern inside the store. It's a wallhanging, about five feet in length.

Cute quilting too.

And you didn't think I was walking out without some of this, did you?

And bonus: A free emory board!

After that, we headed across the street to a Red Dirt t-shirt shop I'd seen. The shirts are dyed using the red dirt from the local landscape. The man minding the store informed me that they opened their original t-shirt store on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Hurricane Iniki left them with a warehouse full of white t-shirts dyed red and the Original Red Dirt Shirt store was born. There were quite a few with funny quotations that made us laugh. The one in the image below reminded me of a friend's husband.

So, we picked up a couple of t-shirts and then headed off down the street, stopping off at a few gift shops and galleries. Along the way I got a better picture of the windows that caught my eye when we drove in.

After that, we headed back to the RV park for some well-needed relaxation, and ended up sitting around like slugs for the rest of the afternoon. We had dinner at the Moab Brewery last night...also something of a tradition for us, when we're in Moab. They have a big menu with something for everyone. The food is delicious and served up with a helping of excellent and cheerful service despite being consistently mobbed.

So that's about it for this vacation. I'll blog along the way home if I have something even slightly interesting to say, "interesting" being a relative term. We expect to arrive home on Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing my kitties. Our petsitter informed me a few days ago that they were doing well and that they were eating their food. That's always a good sign.