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<\/a><\/br>Mesa Arch against Rising Sun<\/p><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s my second day in the Moab area. I fancied watching the sunrise this morning. Of all the locations to watch the sunrise, Mesa Arch was probably the best, for it being an arch and its background of canyons and buttes. It\u2019s also not far from the road (450m trail).<\/p>\n
In addition to that, I decided to head out earlier, so that I could have some time for stargazing before the skies were lit up. I thought photographing Mesa Arch under a starry sky would be wonderful. Yet probably because 20mm still wasn’t wide enough, or because it wasn\u2019t the best time of day that the Milky Way was just above the Arch, my photos turned out to be a bit underwhelming compared with starry skies across Delicate Arch, that one could easily find online.<\/p>\n
The hotel that I stayed at (Days Inn Moab) still advertised free breakfast, despite that for COVID, it was downgraded to a take-out bag consisting of W apples, X muffins, Y chocolate bars and Z boxes of juice. It\u2019s very interesting that during my three nights of stay, the exact number of items X\/Y\/Z\/W per bag varied, and I never got two identical bags. Given that I was spending less than 200 dollars for three nights, I didn\u2019t have much of an issue with their lack of standardization with breakfast preparations.
\nAnd on the plus side, I could bring my breakfast with me when I left the hotel for star-gazing, at 2:15am.<\/p>\n