Wednesday, October 6:

Today was Chuck's 55th birthday. We headed for Canyonlands National Park, which is southwest of Moab. Our first stop was 'Newspaper Rock', with lots of Indian petroglyphs. Next, after a stop or two along the road to take photos, we came to the visitors' center, where we ate our picnic lunch. Then we drove out to Elephant Hill to hike into the Needles area of the park.

When we got back to the car, Larry suddenly felt quite exhausted, and he slept part of the way back to Moab. Chuck said he wanted to eat at Pizza Hut for his birthday, so we went there for dinner. Larry had no appetite, though, and he couldn't eat most of his meal. I realized he had 'hit the wall', as runners and hikers say. He had used up all of his energy stores. I realized he should not hike much tomorrow, and I told him he needed to rest.

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Either these Indians could not count to 5, they had extra toes, or the number of toes a man - had was culturally not important to them.  It was probably the last of those reasons.

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