Road trip 2: Electric Boogaloo: Day 6

Aspen CO to Moab UT
Waking up in Aspen was weird. I felt like someone was going to be sitting next to my bed all ready to charge me a sleeping tax or something. Talked to Adam for a short while before he had to go to work and he left while we packed up and showered. So for about 15 minutes, I felt like I had my very own place in Aspen. Adam! Thank you for your hospitality!
Stopped at a post office outside of town to mail some Phish tickets that I sold online. As sad as it is, there is no way that I will be able to make a concert on a tuesday in Mansfield after all this vacation time that I took off. Plus the extra money will be happily crammed into the gas tank. Luckily we were able to avoid buying gas in Aspen. So we drove through the awesomeness of Colorado once more. Saw a cool waterfall. And a coal mining town. And i bought some coconut m and ms - i wasnt impressed. It's crazy how seeing all the mountains never gets boring. Mostly becaue you have to keep driving up and down them and on a whim you could just decide to drive off the edge if you wanted. Not today though. We went a little out of our way to black canyon of the gunnison. It was awesome. We went to the north side, which apparently is less popular, and it was true. We had the whole place to ourselves. Spent a couple hours walking around and checking out trails. The canyon is huge. You look at it and lose perspective of how far away what wall is - after a while it starts looking like a magic eye picture. The black canyon is extremely underrated and everyone needs to go.
We stopped at a used bookstore and I bought 5 far side books at $2.50 each as well as a cassette tape of the gin blossoms for $1 (we have a tape player in the car and have been using the adapter to plug in iPods) The last time I bought a cassette was probably 1991.
So the plan from here was to drive to the arches national park and camp there. But we got too comfortable thinking camping was easy. Even though it was a weekday, and camping at rocky mountain was plentiful, and noone was at black canyon, EVERYONE was at arches. So we had to scramble to find camping in Moab. Everyplace we called was full. We had to settle with a shitty KOA. I hate the idea behind franchised camping. No fires were allowed. The campsites were on top of each other and we were put close to a dumpster. And there is a convienence store, arcade, and wi-fi. I feel bad for any kid who grows up thinking that is camping. At least I got to talk to a guy about the three stooges while we did some laundry.