Day 19: Moab, UT to Delta, UT (~400 miles)
Tuesday, 1 November 2005
Last updated 12 Nov 2005

Skipped Canyonlands National Park (not that it isn't worth seeing, but it is less accessible and takes a long time to do it justice) and went instead to the remarkably beautiful [1-7] Dead Horse Point State Park where I ran into fellow travellers [5] Jonathan and Katrina from British Columbia and we took pictures of each other dangerous close to precipices (OK, there was a little trick photography in [4] and [5] but it was a steep drop to the bottom, which is why I'm not so close to the edge in [3]!)

Price is a large town by Nevada standards, and it has a worth-stopping-by [8-16] Prehistoric Museum (155 E. Main Street) which splits its exhibits between the human prehistoric and non-human prehistoric sections. Paleontologists have their scandals too, and there was one that I didn't quite understand (not enough of an insider, I guess) about Steven Spielberg inventing a fictitious dinosaur character for Jurassic Park and then it turning up shortly thereafter in Utah.

[17-19] Eureka is practically a ghost town. I don't think I had ever seen a ghost town until this trip, and the first one was Cisco (see Day 18), which was a true ghost town (completely deserted and abandoned). In Eureka, you get to see a ghost town in the making; half the town seems abandoned and the other on its way there. Nonetheless, the remaining residents are still keeping up with the times and [20] paying their bills on-line.

I had started to come across Mexican restaurants already for a few days, but had not ventured into one yet, largely because I was suspicious of Mexican restaurants where no one in the place (neither staff nor owners) seemed to speak Spanish! But finally in Delta, Nevada, I came across one (which puts a little Mexican flag on the plate to prove their authenticity, I guess, even though the owner was from El Salvador--there was a much larger El Salvador flag over the bar!).

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