all good things

 Sunday was our last full day.  As I mentioned earlier, we'd talked about going up to Dead Horse Point State Park to MTB since it's been forever since we've been up there.  We talked ourselves out of it, however, given that it's a 45 minute drive each way (with gas prices the way they are), plus we don't have a Utah state parks pass this year.  We still wanted to MTB, though, so we just went to the MOAB Brand Trails which is only a 10-15 minute drive and free.

Not a cloud to be seen

It was a great ride with the same terrific weather we'd been having all week.  We went across the cow pasture (no cows yet) to Rusty Spur, then turned right at the kiosk on the bike path to the 4x4 road, out along the Bar M loop to Bar B, out the road to the Arches National Park boundary (love that climb on the slickrock ramp), back to Bar M with a cut across to pick up the upper half of Lazy EZ, then around the lower half of Lazy EZ, then back across that cut to Bar M again, to the parking lot cutoff.  I haven't MTBed all summer but that ride felt really good.  And even though the parking lot was as busy as we've seen it in a while, we encountered very few people on the trails.  Just the way we like it.

Since it was our last day, after we got cleaned up we walked with Milton over to Josie Wyatt's.  Their patio is dog-friendly (have one person wait at the back gate with the dog while the other person goes to ask the bartender to be let in) - the whole hotel is, actually.  Milton enjoyed himself a lot, from making lots of new friends to having two separate servers bring him bacon.  He didn't want to leave.  (We didn't either and were sad Monday morning when we had to drive back to SLC.)