If you’ve tried to get on the web site in the last week and haven’t been able to here’s the reason. I’m working on a major overhaul of the web site. The first step in the process required backing up and shutting down the web site for a short time while the web server was being upgraded. As part of that I had to backup the database that ran the blog (What’s New section). Apparently something went wrong with that process which left the What’s New section unavailable for a few days. I had decided to upgrade the blog software to WordPress from B2Evolution anyway. I ended up copying as much as I could from each blog entry from the old database and using that to recreate the posts in the new blog. I finished that process last night and it looks like everything is up and running.  Now I can get caught up with three or four trips I have not posted about yet.

The first trip I need to post about is from over a year ago.  I went to Moab in June 2011 with my friends Gus and Gary.  This time we took our wives and stayed at a very nice inn called “Sunflower Hill Inn”.  It’s a bit more pricey, but the girls (and us) enjoyed it.  We had wanted to get down in May and catch some wild flowers, but it just didn’t work out with my Africa trip in April and May.  We had a good time and managed to get a few good pics.  Here’s one of the Newspaper Rock petroglyphs on the way into the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Panorama

The remainder of the photos from that trip are in the Image Catalog under Moab June 2011. As always, I hope you enjoy them.

Jeff