Ho hum, just another boring day driving across multi-colored
landscape, sandstone canyons, and mountains.
Utah has some of the most beautiful and varied landscape in the world. Huge mesas, wind and water
sculpted land bring one awesome view after the other. The Capitol Reef National Park is just south
of this area and worthy of days of exploring – but not on this trip. Crossing the Green River brings some green
color into the beige, coral, pink and black landscape. We passed many trucks and RV’s hauling ATV’s
and dirt bikes to spend the weekend in the hills. Moab is just south of I-70 and is a mecca for
off-roading (where’s my Jeep when I need it?).
Crossed into Colorado
and here the Colorado River joined us (or we joined it). Going through Fuita and Grand Junction, it’s
interesting to see all the agriculture in the valley between the high
plateaus. Got our wildlife sighting of
the day when a bald eagle soared alongside us .
Traveling on I-70 through the mountains, you can understand
why this was the last portion of the Interstate System completed in the
1970’s. It winds through canyons (at
times it’s layered, one direction pancaked on top of the other). The ski areas are transitioning from one
season to another – still a lot of snow on the slopes, but not enough for the ski lifts to be
operating. Vail, Aspen, Avon, Eagle are
all between seasons – working on the golf courses which still had their greens
covered with plastic tarps.
As we traversed Vail Pass (over 10,000 feet), it was
snowing, but that changed to sprinkles as we dropped down into the Front Slope
of the Rockies. Arrived at Paul and
Sandy’s around 4:30 and welcomed the end of the day with a glass of wine. Paul’s flight from California was delayed out
of San Francisco, so we waited dinner until he arrived home. Fun evening.
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