It drizzled and lightly rained off and on the whole trip as we traveled from Farmington, New Mexico on Highway 64 to 550 which took us into Durango, Colorado. From there we took Highway 160 over to Cortez, then 491 to the Utah border. It was good two lane highway most of the way, but it gets very high. We topped out at over 8500 feet and my ears could tell you all about it.
Since these highways are not Interstate routes, they do not have the big truck stops for fueling up. We kept looking for a place that we could diesel at that we could also get in and out of. Forry pulled into a station that looked pretty good, but turned out to be a dead end (they had built a car wash across where the exit area had been.). We ended up having to disconnect Toad II so that he could turn Auntie Violet around. I had to run the credit card twice in order to get $100 worth of fuel ($50 with each use of the card). It's so much less hassle at a Flying J or Pilot! Then, of course, we had to go through the whole hooking up the toad again...
We went past Mesa Verde National Park and decided to put it on our list of places we want to come back and explore. Hwy 491 ends at Monticello, Utah. From there we took Highway 191 on north to Moab.
This part of Utah is adjacent to Canyonlands National Park and we began to see more and more of the incredible land formations that make up the park.
The red rocks and the abrupt cliffs abound --
There are fantastic formations all over --
As we descended from the high plateaus, we began once more to see signs of spring such as the pale greens of these cottonwoods --
The OK RV Park sits below these incredible cliffs. When we arrived, the sun came out and we were able to set up in beautiful 68 degree weather --
About seven o'clock, the clouds moved in again and we are now in the midst of an old-fashioned thunderstorm!
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