Ghost town on the way to Moab!!

Habs and I headed from Fruita CO Moab UT today. A local "fruitian" told us about back roads (the non-truck route) down there, and that turned out to be a sweet deal. We were both thirsty and saw a little town on the map called Cisco - little did we know, it was an authentic ghost town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco,_Utah)! All of the buildings were run down and there were old cars and abandoned trash and stuff laying around town. We found a general store with a sign that said to honk for service, so we did, but no one came. In fact, the whole place was pretty eerie - even though the town was supposedly abandoned, it felt like there were a few people in some of the run down dwellings watching us (e.g. there was a satellite dish on a the roof of a shack). All in all, it was really cool to walk around in there.

We made it to Moab on a road that paralleled the Colorado river. It was really scenic with all of the red rocks, and we kept stopping to take pics. We tried to take a quick warm up ride (so Habs could get used to her rental bike before we took it out on the slick rock trail), but we got a bit bamboozled by the guy at the bike shop - the trail he recommended blew, and then there were storms moving in rapidly anyways. At least we got to hit the Desert Highlights shop before it closed to sign up for our Thursday canyoneering trip!

Pics:

General store in Cisco


Check out all of the skulls in the background!!


Habs had to go, but ended up having to hold it ;)

Here's the post office...

A little landscape view of how the town looked...I thought we should try to pitch the tent and camp somewhere in there for the night, but Habs wanted no part of that.


Lots of red rock on the way down to Moab!

Oh, and nice blue sky too...

We pitched the tent at a KOA in Moab. This is after a long day in the heat, as if you couldn't tell ;)