Day 15 - Sedona to Moab

On the drive from Sedona to Moab, we drove through several more stunning blink-and-you-miss-it landscape changes from scrub covered plains to Mars-like landscapes. We stopped for lunch in a nice little Utah town called Bluff. Pioneered by Mormons back in 1880, we thought Bluff might be the first time we experience intolerance toward alcohol consumption. Not to be deterred by the possibility of a cultural no-no, Jon ordered a beer straight up.

We spent that afternoon at Arches National Park. “Arches” is not your typical lush, green tree-filled park, it’s a rock park. Millions of years of wind erosion created a huge region full of monumental rock ‘sculptures’, including the famed arches.

That night we dined at Eddie McStiffs, a place affectionately known as McStiffy’s. Jon and Malena quickly fell in love with a local beer that just happened to have a 9% alcohol content. For the first time on the trip, possibly due to the effects of 9% beers, Malena’s insatiable appetite got the better of her. Malena decided she would top off her meal with a slice a Mexican chocolate cake. After one bite of that Mexican chocolate cake, Jon claimed it was ‘richest thing he’s ever eaten’ and ‘she’ll never finish that’. Well Malena took that as a challenge and smashed the entire cake. Thing is, 10 minutes later that cake smashed Malena and she had to head back to the room for sleepy, sleep’s.