| Mesa Verde National Park
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 8:10 am | Departed Far View Lodge | 239 |
| 8:50 am | Arrived Mesa Verde Visitor's Center | 232 |
Range/Distance ratio: 0.7
Conditions: Downhill
We packed and checked out of Far View lodge and made our way down for a stop at the Visitor's Center,
which we hadn't had a chance to see before.
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But before we left, we wondered:
Doesn't that Ancestral Pueblo artwork look like an electric plug and outlet to you?
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| Moab Supercharger
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 9:25 am | Departed Mesa Verde Visitor's Center | 231 |
| 11:34 pm | Arrived Moab Supercharger | 118 |
Range/Distance ratio: 0.869
Conditions: Downhill
After crossing from Colorado back into Utah,
we reached our next Supercharger at a convenient time for lunch
at the nearby Pasta Jay's.
Cost to Charge: $0
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| Canyonlands National Park
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Next was our visit to Canyonlands National Park, which
has three distinct regions
partitioned by Green River and the Colorado River.
| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 12:34 pm | Departed Moab Supercharger | 247 |
| 1:11 pm | Arrived Island in the Sky Visitor's Center | 198 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.48
Conditions: Uphill
We stopped by the Visitor's Center to Islands in the Sky to get our bearings
and have a bathroom break.
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These rivers cut vast canyons reminiscent of the Grand Canyon but still
beautiful and unique in their own way.
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Green River Overlook.
That's a 1000-foot drop just behind us.
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Mesa Arch with a view of Buck Canyon leading to the Colorado River.
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| Best Western Canyonlands
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 3:12 pm | Departed Canyonlands | 166 |
| 3:45 pm | Arrived Best Western Canyonlands Inn | 156 |
Range/Distance ratio: 0.4
Conditions: Downhill
We returned to the Moab Supercharger also because it is
situated in the parking lot for the Best Western Canyonlands Inn,
where we checked in.
It has a great pool and laundry facilities, so we
used both to great effect.
Afterwards we ate dinner at, of all places, a Japanese restaurant
in Moab, Utah,
Sabaku Sushi.
The kids had a craving for udon and I enjoyed sushi rolls.
Cost to Charge: $0
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Dean E. Dauger holds a Ph. D. in physics from UCLA, where his group
created the first Mac cluster in 1998. Dr. Dauger is the award-winning
author in multiple American Institute of Physics' Software Contests and
co-authored the original, award-winning Kai's Power Tools
image-processing package for Adobe Photoshop.
After founding his company,
Dauger Research, Inc., its debut product,
Pooch, derived from Dr. Dauger's experience using clusters for his
physics research, was soon awarded as "most innovative" by IEEE Cluster
and continues to revolutionize parallel computing and clusters worldwide
with its patented technology.
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