Desert Bistro – Moab, Utah
My Kim didn’t buy my explanation that Moab is an acronym standing for “Mother Of All Buffets.” She did find my legitimate explanation viable. I explained that Moab means “a land just short of the Promised Land,” a name bestowed because the Moab valley was a verdant oasis in the middle of a desert. Moab first appears in the Old Testament book of Genesis and is situated in ancient Palestine just east of the Dead Sea where Jordan now lies. Because of the physical similarities to the desert jewel of the Old Testament, the small Utah town founded by Mormon settlers in the 1800s was dubbed Moab. When we first visited the Moab area nearly three decades ago, its breath-taking topography and emerald skies called to mind a term synonymous with “a land just short of the Promised Land.” Never mind the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River of John Denver’s “Take Me Home Country Roads.” Even more than West Virginia, the Moab area was “almost heaven.” More spectacular than Sedona, more wondrous than Taos, more otherworldly than Abiquiu, the Moab area was quite simply an awe-inspiring idyll. Because life…and mostly work, gets in the way, it took us…