Day 7- No Bad News

"Don't give me bad news, no bad news, I don't need none of your bad news today.
You're just a sad little boy, anyone can see, you're just a sad little boy.
Why you carrying on that way?
Why don't you burn your house down, burn your own house down, burn your own house down
Try to kill your own disease.
And leave the rest of us, there's a lot of us, leave the rest of us who want to live in peace to live in peace.

I'm gonna find me a man and love him so well,
Love him so strong, and love him so slow.
We're gonna go way beyond the walls of this fortress.
And we won't be afraid, we won't be afraid,
And though the darkness may come our way,
We won't be afraid to be alive anymore.
And we'll grow kindness in our hearts for all the strangers among us til there are no strangers anymore.


Don't bring me bad news, no bad news, I don't need none of your bad news today.
You can't have my fear, I've got nothing to lose, you can't have my fear.
I'm not getting out of here alive anyways.
And I don't need none of these things, I don't need none of these things that I've been handed.
And the bird of peace is flying over, she's flying over, coming in for a landing."

-Patty Griffin


So I left Moab, UT today and the desert and headed toward Ouray, Colorado.  Here are some pictures from the journey.

Wilson Arch

Canyonlands National Park

Obligatory head-shot of the day @ Canyonlands National Park!

I crawled inside a cave!  I thought that maybe I would move in and become a hermit... but I like people too much.

Zen Tree

San Juan Mountains near Ouray, Colorado

I'm fighting the urge to buy a ranch and marry a cowboy.  I love you Colorado!  

Everywhere you look... beauty!

San Juan Mountains again... they aren't even the Rockies and they still make the Adirondacks look puny!

Best meal of the trip yet!  Prawn with risotto.  Note the mojito in the background.  Apparently, when you're 8,000+ feet above sea level, 1 mojito feels like 3... good to know :)

Only 30 minutes in Ouray, CO and I scored a date with a real life cowboy named Dusty. This is the view from our dinner table. Apparently, Ouray is known as "The Switzerland of Colorado." Super cute town and super cute folk. It's also home to the most dangerous road in America (Red Mountain Pass). People drive off the cliff all the time and die. While we were eating dinner, the sirens sounded and Dusty told me that that meant someone had gone over the edge... Remind me not to drive that way tomorrow!

So pretty!  This is across the street from my hotel.

Tomorrow I will have been on the road for one week.  Since then, I have traveled over 1,262 miles.  Poor little buggies on my car... I could never be a Jainist :)

Local Bar, Local Beer, Local Folk.  Found myself having a conversation with an elderly gentleman about Studebakers... a topic of which I know nothing about.  Also, I found myself consoling a woman who just had dinner with her boyfriend's parents for the first time- his mother hated her.  Do I have "social worker" written on my face?  Haha.

A real, live Cowboy piano player... so cool to have old timey music played on an upright piano as I sip a Jack and ginger... This was taken at the Outlaw Bar in Ouray, CO.