We completed our two-week road trip. Some details: • We ate 2,980 miles of asphalt across five states: California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. • We were surprised to see wineries in Utah, including a few the Moab desert. • We traveled as high as 12,500 feet at the top of Breckenridge Ski Area.
We pulled into Moab about 5 pm a few nights ago. We were hungry and anxious to see Canyon Country. A well-placed brochure afforded us the opportunity to do both — at night — with a Cowboy Style Dutch Oven Dinner followed by a Sound and Light Show aboard a jet boat on the brackish…
We left the gorgeously green mountains of Colorado to drive to the red hot desert of Utah. In about 300 miles, we saw markedly different terrain and weather, leaving 9600 feet (about 3200 meters) of elevation and temps in the 60s and arriving in Moab at 4600 feet (about 2200 meters) and 95 degree white…