Leaving Denver was awesome; the city was weird - at least the part were in - and I didn’t love being there, mostly because it’s a city.
Approaching the mountains was incredible! You could tell from miles away that they were HUGE. They have such a massive presence that is hard to describe.
Shortly after getting into the mountains we saw a group of goats on the side of the road eating the rock salt, which was basically the first wildlife we had seen on our trip. The mountains were a bit snowy, which was nerve wracking because we hadn’t taken our car in the snow yet and had no idea how it would handle. But it handles surprisingly nicely and everything went smoothly
The road was spotted with tunnels going straight through mountains. One was so huge that I thought for sure we’d never come out; and it kept going down! It was crazy. I didn’t remember to take pictures of the tunnels because I was too busy being concerned with our lives. Haha
Watching the transition from rocky mountains to red outcroppings, plateaus and mesas was really neat! It’s so bizarre to me because for so long all of this was just a concept to me but now I have real life experience to validate it.
I swear, the pictures do it no justice, none of it. Every time we saw something that we thought for sure could be translated to two dimensions we were so disappointed with the outcome. It’s so cliché, but you really have to see it to understand.
We continued west into Utah and then went straight south through the arches national park and Moab. We didn’t get any good views of anything crazily spectacular and the sun was starting to go down. We have a ton more pictures and I’ll be uploading them over the next week or so.
Utah in the dark is really boring. It snowed pretty bad for a while, but we got through it. There were times when clouds descended over the road so thickly that you could see nothing other than maybe one of the lines on the road. That was weird and slightly scary. Like the tunnels, I got this feeling that we would never see further than we could then and that the fog would last forever and that was life now. But obviously, we’re fine.
The car stopped acting up altogether which makes us think it was a tank of crap gas or maybe the altitude? Or maybe a combination. We’ll still get it checked out when we get it registered and to make sure it passes emissions.
Northeastern Arizona is just as boring as Utah in the dark. We drive through a native reservation somewhere in Utah &/or Arizona. We stopped at a gas station there and there was a dog just trotting across the parking lot. My first thought was that it was someone’s pet that got our of their car, but Maya told me it’d what they call a res dog and they’re strays or wild essentially. This one looked startlingly like Avry, my dog, but slightly less beagle. It tore open some trash and was finding something to eat. Then a bigger fluffy one joined it, this one was a faun color with dark nose which makes me think some sort of mastiff. It was weird because everyone ignored them, like homeless people on the street. And I feel just as conflicted about a dog digging through trash for it’s meal as I do about a human doing the same.
Anyway, we finally see signs for Page, which us awesome because after being in the car for 40 or so hours over the course of three days it starts to become the norm, and that’s weird.
Then we got to the house, which still seems surreal, I can’t believe we’re here. We did some brief catching up and meeting the critters then promptly went to bed.
So, Merry Christmas everyone, or whatever it is that you celebrate! :) We finally made it to our destination safely. I will post the remaining pictures from our trip here and also try to keep it updated on future adventures. I will be trying to use social media less, especially since internet is spotty out here, so this is likely where things will be posted. :)
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