We had a nice Shabbos at Forsyth Reservoir.  We walked over to the other RV at the lake, a retired couple that lives a few miles away in the town of Fairview, but they come up for the weekend in their RV  a couple times a month to get away from the phone.

After a chilly night, we awoke to another beautiful day:

We drove back to Loa to use the Laundromat:

They had three washers and three dryers, one of which only worked intermittently, so we only did half our laundry:

We drove east from Loa, back through Torrey and on to Capitol Reef National Park.  The first thing we did was drive the scenic drive in the park:

We headed down the dirt road through Capitol Gorge:

The park also preserves the Mormon settlement of Fruita, which was a private inholding when the monument was established in the 1920s.  The last resident left in the late 1960s.  The Park Service staff maintain the orchards and fields to give visitors a feeling for what life was like in the ten family settlement:

Not a bad view:

We drove east just outside the park boundary to disperse camp on BLM land.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.