Lake Tahoe and Arches

Wow. I can't believe how long I've gone without updating this thing. Many apologies, but we've been without a good internet connection for almost a week, and I really haven't had time to even write down my thoughts. Since it's late right now, I'm going to write about part of the journey.

So last time I wrote I was in California, at my friend John's place in Cupertino where he is interning at Apple for the summer. After doing our laundry, we headed west to Lake Tahoe just to see the lake (which I've seen before) and split up the massive drive that was gonna happen if we drove straight from Cupertino to Arches National Park. So we spent the night at a random motel near the lake and near the Nevada border. We walked down to the lake and took some pictures, and then walked to the stateline, then grabbed dinner. Our dinner which was supposed to be the "best barbecue in town," which means the other places suck, because this place was horrible and overpriced. Ok, it wasn't HORRIBLE, but not very good. After our dinner, I couldn't resist the urge to gamble, and lost $50 on Let It Ride Poker and single deck Blackjack. We then walked back to the motel, and went to bed. After waking up, we grabbed a quick breakfast and drove 9 hours to Delta, Utah, which was about 5 hours from Arches. The motel was cheap and supposedly had internet, but it was sketchy, and really didn't work. Next morning, we drove to Arches National Park.

When we got to the park, it was about 3pm so we went to the visitor center and got information on hike's and campsites outside of the park. We found a site right on the Colorado River, pitched our tent, and headed back into the park. The first thing we did was go and see Balanced Rock. Here's a picture:
It was pretty cool. We then went and did the hike to the Windows, which is essentially two arches next to each other. Here is a picture:
We then decided, since the light was going to be really good, to go see the most famous arch in the park, Delicate Arch. The hike was long, and up hill, and extremely hot, but we made it and it was worth it. Here's what I mean:
Yeah, crazy beautiful. After the hike back we were dead, and drove into Moab (town right outside the park), had dinner, then drove back to the campsite, and passed out with no rain hood on the tent, so we pretty much slept under the stars. Next morning, we packed up the tent early, and hiked to Landscape Arch. We saw a few other arches as well. Basically everything was beautiful and amazing.

Right now, I'm too tired to think, so I'll write about the rest tomorrow, hopefully. Sorry, but I can't think right now.