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Show bank, because I could retire and spend more time in southeast Utah. T also enjoyed your passage about the "justice and retribution" so similar to what was visited upon the native populations of North America. An Indian writer told it so much better in a recent column in a Montana newspaper. If I can find the column, I’ll send you a copy. Paul & Zee McCarroll welcome you GLOBALLY INSPIRED CUISINE : Keep pumping out the Zephyr, and don’t forget to dump your old appliances in the front yard. 60 N. 100 West state liquor 259-4295 license Jack Savage TIME FOR ARCHES IMPROVEMENTS? _ I know I have not written in a while, and after my most recent visit last weekI see I need to reengage. By the way, I loved your Feedback edition and my subscription request will arrive shortly under separate cover. A couple of disturbing things have happened in and around Moab that I felt I should call to your attention: Reason Where is Arches? I was very annoyed to find that the park is now very difficult to locate. The entrance sign is gone and it is not easy to spot the park from the road like it once was. It was only afterI realized the visitor center was actually the visitor center, and not an RV repair facility, that I was able to get back on track, I think we need to consider something like a big neon Delicate Arch or something up on the cliff above the visitor center. I know the concept is rough, but the people at Hole In The Rock can probably help with the specifics. The Windows. I appreciate the spiral staircases leading up to the arches in the - windows, but there are a few places where some banisters and perhaps even carpet would be nice. Also, there is a lot of sand in that area and it gets in peoples shoes. Any chance we can clean that up? Devils Garden. What a disappointment. No new stairs or anything. I was thinking, with all the trams going in around Moab, has anyone thought about putting a tram system in that would carry you out to Double-O and back? If we did this we could stop improving the trail and pump the money into the cable cars instead. It solves the sand in shoes problem as well. You could have the cars go through some of the arches on the way fora neat effect. I can provide some sketches if you think there would be some interest. Expanding the park. I understand the park may be expanded to take in, among other things, Dry Mesa. That’s OK, but there isn’t much out there and it certainly won’t generate revenues. What about expanding along 191 to the South from the visitor center? I would come a good ways in and take in the water slide and maybe a motel or two. They can be run as concessions. Also, that unused tram lift could also be annexed and expanded to outfit the whole park (see #3 above). Again, I apologize for not writing sooner. Thanks for the great work you do. To Celebrate... We are soon moving to our new location... 60 N. 100 West Join us! “THE BEST RESTAURANT IN SOUTHERN Salt Lake Magazine UTAH" WHY SUBSCRIBE TO THE ZEPHYR? David Travers San Antonio, Texas BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. _E Mail Your Feedback Comments: We prefer email comments to Feedback because we don't have to re-type them. So EMAIL your letters and save someone from developing carpal tunnel syndrome. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ON PAGE 5 zephyr@moci.net A DIFFERENT VIEW FROM ESCALANTE... Dear Jim, Our basic response to your articles ("It’s Time to Look in the Mirror") was: "Bravol!! It is about time!" If any of us are going to survive out here in the desert, it will have to be a joint effort that is balanced and realistic. 702 S. Main St. 259.7722 800. 793.821 6 If the desert does anything at all it teaches you reality! You get your life simplified and purified and if you are listening you also learn that others have similar experiences that may be on different levels, but all are being transformed. Is that perhaps then the draw to the desert experience that seems almost sacred? Did not men of the Bible go out for 40 - days into the desert to be cleansed and not always by choice. I believe respect for those lessons and balance and that antagonism and ego! We all -go humbly before our fellow who have lived here longer is primary. They have learned wisdom is available only if you do not come at then with need humbling in the eyes of our Creator and then we will man. Sincerely, Harriet and Philip Priska Serenidad Gallery and Serenidad Retreat Escalante, Utah (10 year residents formerly of Menlo Park, CA) Moab’s Canoe Specialists It's Summer. 1 It's HOT y UP 4) Put a HAT on you knuckleheads!!! UNDERSTANDS ‘OPTIMISTIC’ ASPECT OF THE ZEPHYR Dear Jim I was looking up Glen Canyon stuff on the Zephyr web site and (got distracted) read an article you had written about Herb Ringer. I was impressed with the way you take such an genuine interest in people. Then I "got it”... It’s about this doomsday stuff, overpopulation, the questionable future of the Canyonlands country and the Earth at large. Because you talk about that stuff in the paper, you have been accused of being pessimistic. But instead I see that--by looking at it, talking about it and caring, you are actually being optimistic. Now if you just didn’t care and shrugged it off, and gave in to the inevitableness of it all, THAT would be pessimism. When there’s no hope, that’s when the spirit despairs... Anyway, now | understand that you are a great optimist. So there. Andrea Leichliter Park City, Utah Yep, that’s me...cheerful Jim. 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