I was ready to relax by Friday afternoon, so I ate lunch at a microbrewery restaurant, Eddie McStiff's. (I bet they hate it when people call them Ed McStiffy's.) Utah's liquor laws are very strange, but I didn't notice any difficulties in just getting a beer at a restaurant.
I spent the whole afternoon hanging out at my motel reading a book, then went to another microbrewery restaurant for dinner, the Moab Brewery. The Moab Brewery was having some sort of motorcycle "show and shine", so the parking lot was filled with cruisers, and the restaurant was filled with burly motorcycle dudes. Fortunately they had room for a small hiker dude.
During dinner I heard gossip from the next table that they'd had a fire in the electrical box and they'd be shutting off the electricity soon. Indeed, just as I was signing my credit card slip the lights went out. It was still light outside, and the windows were large, so it probably wasn't a big deal for those people still inside as long as their food was already ready.
Six-day hiking total:
Time: 30 hours 10 minutes
Distance: 61.7 miles
Ascent: 12,210 feet
Water: 10.25 liters
