Trundling around the American Southwest again, happened upon a very short trail to Cave Spring in Utah’s southern Canyonlands. The place has an other-worldly creepiness to it. I half expected to peer into a darkened rock alcove and find some thousand year old wild animal or possibly a prehistoric human lurking there. Didn’t find either. There are, however, signs of human presence from the distant and more recent past.  In the middle of the arid, sun-blasted, scorching rock landscape is a spot where water seeps from the earth. You can see why it must have been a very popular place in the time before ours.

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