An Evening Drive

After our quad adventure we still had an eventful 5 hour drive from Moab Utah to Vernal Utah. To get there we had to travel into Colorado

What is striking about this drive is how the scenery changes. Gone are the red rock canyons I love so, into completely grey rock. It's like going from color telvision to black and white. Then just as suddenly green shrubs and tree appear and the land looks completely different again. I remember this drive well from last year.

Once in Colorado we turned North on Hwy 139 which took us on a new route over a high pass. On our drive over the pass we encountered open range land and saw beautiful completely back cows and calf's all along the road. Every once in a while a red one was thrown in there, to add color I guess. It was amazing the steep inclines they were grazing on.

We were also amazed at how high up we went. We watched our altitude rise to over 8200 feet. At the top we stopped for a picture and while we were there Taya called and it was so good to hear from her. Their trip home went well and Isaiah was so glad to see Ted his favorite friend who stayed behind so Beaver could travel on the houseboat with him. How cute is that!!

Sitting at the top of the pass a mule deer wandered out from the brush. (eat your heart out John Eide). But the best was seeing two large female elk grazing in an alpine meadow.

The drive down in the dark was a bit crazy. We met so many semi's on those windy, unfamiliar roads. Not my favorite scenario.

It was quite late when we again entered Utah but we were clearly in farm country and it all felt so much like home. Green and irrigation running everywhere. The only thing that seemed out of place was all the dinosaurs. They were everywhere!