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Canyonlands - Needles area & Newspaper Rock
A short dive from Monument Valley to Monticello with views of the snow-topped La Sal mountains.Can't believe how much colder it is here--40 degrees during the day.
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Harts Draw Road
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One Amazing Day
... drive. There was a good deal of white knuckly beware of deer and even bigger, beware of elk stretches and I did have another close call where we stopped clear of the deer but threw the contents of the car around. All of a sudden we happened along a clear, bright blue lake which was a total surprise. I believe it was the Recapture Reservoir. We took a small dirt road off the main road and I began to wonder if I was going ...
Dag 20 Page - Blanding
... en we gaan met iets meer dan en kwartvolle benzinetank op pad en willen onderweg tanken. Langzaamaan begin ik me grote zorgen te maken of we nog wel wat tegen komen. Bijna wanhopig zie ik een bord langs de weg "Shonto – Trading Post – Gasstation – 5 mile". We rijden erheen en stuiten op een onverharde weg. Voordat we die weg opgaan kunnen we nog linksaf de wijk in. We hebben de hele wijk doorgereden, geen tankstation. Ik vraag een jochie op straat en ...
Canyon de Chelly to Monticello
... conditioned cushy stuff!! Shortly after entry into the canyon the driver puts it into 4 wheel drive and stays there til we come out. We drive thru the water, on the banks, up and down. We went up 2 canyons, Canyon del Muerte and Canyon de Chelly. Really a lot of fun and the driver told a lot of history and stories. Driver was David, said he had been raised way up at the end of the north canyon (Muerte), ...
Back in Utah
Here we are in Blanding, Utah, at a very simple little RV Park. No Ponderosa pines here. But I can see for miles and miles. They do have a type of English sycamore tree in town with balls hanging all over - very weird looking tree. John called them dingle-berry trees.
We visited their little museum. And it was very nice for a small town. It was settled by the Mormons who were forced to leave Mexico. It took many years to get ...