After the rainstorm
It was a short drive, just a couple of hours today, to bring us to the north of Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. We are in Horsethief Campground, a BLM campsite just outside the national park, and half a mile in from the pavement on a good gravel road. It is a very nice place to stay, though it has no water, but we knew that so came prepared. We plan to stay here until Sunday.
The weather today was unsettled and stormy. We drove through a heavy squall, but it was nice by the time we arrived here and set up. After lunch we went to the national park, the visitor center of which is about seven miles south of us. As we left the visitor center we could see a large dark cloud to the west. Though it didn’t rain on us, we only went to one viewpoint, and decided that the weather was too threatening, so we returned to the trailer. On the way back it started to rain, and we saw one major lightning strike.
The storm didn’t last long, but another one passed through as we were preparing and eating supper. It rained quite heavily for about half an hour, and there was a very nice double rainbow to our east. It now feels quite cool out tonight.