Trish and I had a nice Shabbos here near Moab!

Winds were a little strong today, so I didn’t fly. I was surprised to see this balloon launch in the distance, and he eventually landed near us, hopefully without incident.

We rented a SUP for Trish and paddled the Colorado River north of Moab:

Sunset was spectacular as usual:

Utah, where a Walmart can be a foreground element in a landscape photograph:

After my stand up paddleboarding experience in Minneapolis, I decided to purchase my own stand up paddle board. Someone had told me FedEx allows packages to be redirected in transit, so I ordered a stand up paddle board to my home address.  What I didn’t realize is that the redirect of the package to a new location costs money unless the location to which it is being redirected happens to be local relative to the original shipping address, so the cost of doing the redirect from New York to Utah was almost the cost of the stand up paddle board, so I decided to allow that SUP to continue on to my home. I then ordered another stand up paddle board from the same company, this time specifying that it be shipped to a FedEx store here in Logan, and it was indeed shipped FedEx. I then redirected it to the local Walgreens where I picked it up this morning. Quite the ordeal!

I tried out the new paddleboard in Logan’s Cutler Marsh:

I then headed south to overnight at the Walmart of Harrisville, Utah.  See the trip map for today’s drive.

For the last few days, I’ve been visiting my brother and his family in Minneapolis.  One highlight was trying out stand-up paddleboarding (SUPing) for the first time by renting boards at Lake Nokomis:

I enjoy this much more than kayaking, because of the better view standing up, a more breezy experience versus being in the cockpit of a kayak, and the ability to change from sitting to kneeling to standing.  Using a single paddle versus a kayak paddle is slower.

Today, I said goodbye and drove west, crossing the Missouri River into South Dakota this afternoon.  I’ll be spending Shabbos on the bank of the Missouri River in Oacoma, South Dakota.  Visibility is poor due to Canadian wildfires:

Good Shabbos!  See the trip map for today’s drive.