Moab to Blanding

On our drive to Blanding we did several stops. The Hole ‘N the Rock was quite fascinating. It is a 5,000 sq.ft. house in a cave. They had tours and a couple of shops plus a zoo.

We just wandered the grounds and found all types of weird things like this lizard on the rock.

The artist who made several of the items was amazing. Here’s a jeep and details.

And a bull.

And a rock chair. Lots of bizarre things here!

At one rest stop they had a sign about this rock. It is named Hardwater Rock since they thought it looked like a local trucker with the nickname of Hardwater.

We stopped at Newspaper Rock with lots of petroglyphs.

I thought some of them were pretty great artists. I liked the bison.  I’d guess there’s also a guy on a horse shooting an arrow along with another guy standing on his horse.

  

I noticed a lot of feet prints on this wall. Surprisingly, some have 5 toes and some have 6 toes or 4 toes. While discussing this at another stop the next day, we were told that Native Americans in this area tended to have genetic anomalies of 6 toes or 6 fingers. These people were honored for that difference. Interesting!

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Another interesting thing we heard was that the Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) had a population of over 50,000 in this area in the past. This is more than the general population today for this area.