Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure

[Matt]

Excellent.  Balloon Fiesta next week.  Apparently I will have to get out of the house at 4:30 am to beat the traffic to the fiesta grounds.  I’m sure for an experienced angler like @Giles thats no big deal, but if I try to get up before 8 am the results are generally catastrophic.  I guess we’ll see.

[Matt]

Or we can just stand in the back yard apparently…

[Matt]

[Matt]

Ava is also excited.  In her usual stoic fashion…

[Seul]

8am??? That's midday, Sir!.. You lazy tosser, Sir!..

[Giles]

@Matt:

I will have to get out of the house at 4:30 am to beat the traffic to the fiesta grounds.  I’m sure for an experienced angler like @Giles thats no big deal,

03:50 this morning - "had" to catch a flight to Portugal - I have unfinished business with Portuguese Bass…...I have to say, I feel a little less than optimal atm  06:30 start tomorrow.....

[Matt]

Early flights are the exception for me.  I love airport Bloody Mary’s.

[Matt]

We’ve booked a hotel in Moab, UT for the week of Thanksgiving.  Arches, Canyonlands, etc.  Watch this space as well as the 16 oz slub sample thread.

[Matt]

My barber apprenticeship is going really well.  I cut Imogene’s hair yesterday…

[Matt]

Made it to Moab today…

[steelworker]

beautiful @Matt 

[Matt]

Very excited to get into it today.  We’re starting with a 5 miler at Dead Horse Point St Pk.  Hopefully that and lots of coffee will remedy my post drive back trauma and sleep deprivation caused by the kids’ first night in the hotel.

I’ll put up some scenery shots here and some 16 oz slub shots on the sample thread.

[SKT]

Hope you guys have fun today and thanks for letting us all tag along. Looking forward to more pics. Beautiful country.

[Matt]

Dead Horse St Park…

The park is named Dead Horse Point because cowboys used to corral wild mustangs here but after choosing the ones they wanted they’d leave the rest penned in to die of thirst.  No one knows why.  Here’s one of the fences they made…

[Matt]

[endo]

@Matt  great pics, thanks for sharing

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Matt you weren't lying, those pictures are frickin amazing

[Matt]

[Matt]

[Matt]

There’s a 100 mile road at the bottom of the canyons that you need a 4WD or AWD to travel.  It takes a few days to drive and you can camp along the way.  We’re planning to come back to do that with the kids.