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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">We’ve moved – actually, several times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our last update was from </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Blanding</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">UT</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> near Cedar Mesa.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After that update, </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">we spent two days backpacking the Slickhorn canyons and then another 4 days backpacking in Grand Gulch.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">were terrific hikes, with lots of prehistoric ruins and rock art to explore as we walked.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Grand Gulch trip and a </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">short side trip into </SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Colorado</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> made it plain that something was seriously wrong with my foot.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we headed north to </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Moab</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, UT in the belief that </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Moab</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> would have a reasonably good sports medicine clinic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there is an </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">emergency clinic that was open on Sunday and they diagnosed my foot problem as Morton’s Neuroma rather </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">than the broken toe I thought I was working on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we spent several days near </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Moab</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> while Ginny did some </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">hiking, we found several rock art sites that we hadn’t seen before and I got to rest the foot a little.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Now we’ve moved again – northward to </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Green River</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Utah</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are a gaggle of rock art sites in this area – </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">i</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ncluding some that we’d never heard of until a couple days ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of them we can drive to (on roads that </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I suspect most of you wouldn’t torture your cars by driving) – some we’ll have to hike in to see. </SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">A lot of the roads we’ve been driving are dirt or gravel – and some of them have truly been four-wheel-drive rated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>We don’t have four wheel drive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This next week or so will be a lot more of that kind of driving – lots of dust, sand, </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">rocks and ruts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And some prayers for “no rain” and for the sand to be firm and not too deep.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The Morton’s Neuroma is sorta under control (barely) using lots of Advil (4X4), a metatarsal pad, some toe bandages </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">and re-lacing the boots so the toebox is looser.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can generally walk a couple miles without the sucker having a complete </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">screaming tantrum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I expect that to get better.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been advised by a friend (a doctor) to get cortisone injections.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>I’ll do that as soon as we get within range of a foot doctor, but the nearest one is well over a hundred miles away – in </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">the wrong direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it’ll take a while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In the meantime, pain or not, we’re still having fun.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the next week or so we’ll be poking around in odd places in the </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">San Rafael Desert (the area between the San Rafael Reef and the Book Cliffs) – a little hiking (up to 5 miles today and </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">yesterday), a lot of rock art sites and a lot of desert.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah – we love the desert, but we don’t really want to live here </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">permanently.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Last year we saw a lot of the well known rock art sites: Rochester Panel, Black Dragon, </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Nine</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Mile</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Canyon and Range Creek</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>This year </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">we’re looking for some of the less well known sites – which tend to be a little more off the beaten track.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rock art </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">in Cedar Mesa was generally Anasazi – in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Moab</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> there was a mix of Anasazi and Fremont – and in the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Green River</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> area it's </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">basically </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Fremont</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> with a mix of Archaic/Barrier style and occasional Anasazi elements.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We like all of them – but we’ll </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">go to greater lengths to get to the Archaic/Barrier style sites.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personal preference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seeing paintings of large ghostly </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">figures that are over 2000 years old (and maybe as much as 8000 yo) is a special experience.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">We'll let you know if we survive the experience. <G></SPAN></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Walk softly,</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 5pt 3.75pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Jim & Ginny</SPAN></P>
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