When you don't have Wellingtons: How to cross streams while looking rather silly (but it's fun!)

 

What do you do when you are in the desert and have to cross a flooded road?  We walked all around it to find another route, but couldn’t.  The foliage was too dense.  If we had just walked through the water our shoes and boots would have become hopelessly muddy.  

Solution?  You create cheapo Wellington’s.

The key, if you are planning on stealing our brilliant idea, is to use trash compactor bags, not regular trash bags.  Trash compactor bags are much thicker.  We use trash compactor bags on road trips because regular trash bags tear easily when brushed against bushes or stones.

While crossing the stream, I told Vicky that she looked like Pecos Bill. Don't you agree?  

 Vicky:

 

 Pecos Bill:

And what did I look like, you might ask?  

How about an idiot?

After using them, all one does is air them out, brush them off, refold them, and they are available for the next flooded area that must be crossed.

 Here are some other photos of the hikes we took from our spot at Mile 150 of the Moab 240.  Sometimes we were on gravel roads, sometimes on 4WD roads, sometimes on trails, sometimes on old mining roads, and sometimes we were just walking across country.  A little of everything.

The camper is in the middle of this photo, in the distance.