It seems the expression, "If nosotros didn't receive got bad luck, we'd receive got no luck at all," is a plumbing fixtures means to get today's post. Before I teach to that constituent though, allow me only demonstrate you lot how beautiful our drives receive got been. The roads are lined amongst blooming Desert Sunflowers. The paradigm below was the route leading upward to the dump station at Massacre Rocks State Park.
The flowers are hence brilliant too sunny!
They've been paradigm the hillsides yellow. They are every fleck every bit impressive every bit the California poppies nosotros saw in conclusion spring.
When nosotros left the reason park, nosotros had to a greater extent than than a quarter tank of fuel left, too hence nosotros opted to caput for the commencement station along our means that had diesel. Doing anything else would receive got meant back-tracking a fair distance. The station was billed to live opened upward 24 hours, too hence nosotros figured...no problem. (Famous in conclusion words...again.)
When nosotros arrived, nosotros institute a sign on the door that said, "Back inwards a bit." It was possible to purchase gasoline amongst a credit carte du jour too no attendant. For diesel, nosotros were required to become within too pay inwards advance. With the shop closed...temporarily, at least...we had to wait. So nosotros wandered about waiting for "a bit" of fourth dimension to pass. They had some infant llamas along amongst a machine that dispensed pellets for feeding for 25 cents. (We didn't create that.) This paradigm demonstrate was funny for the llama inwards the back, who was attempting to consume the plastic flowers the entire fourth dimension nosotros were there.
There were also ii footling burros.
So, around a one-half hr passed, too nosotros had to determine whether to go on waiting or caput on downwards the road. It was iffy since the side yesteryear side service was non for some other fifty miles. We were, quite literally, inwards the middle of nowhere. We decided to endangerment it, too nosotros in all probability could receive got made it, except that our journeying took us upward a miles-long upward grade. Heading uphill drained our fuel tank rattling speedily too nosotros institute ourselves stuck yesteryear the side of the road. Out of gas. Bummer. It was sort of a bad house to live stuck also because nosotros were only nearly 100 yards from a crease inwards the road, too hence barely visible to oncoming drivers of (lots of) trucks too cars.
I'll tell you lot what I told my friends on Facebook, which was this: There must live something nearly move to Colorado that turns our trips into a fiasco. Last trip, nosotros got caught inwards epic flooding inwards Estes Park too had to completely reroute ourselves. So far, 3rd twenty-four hours of our trip, we’ve had a apartment tire too a plumbing leak. . . . We’re stuck yesteryear the side of I-84 waiting for the AAA guy to convey us some fuel. Geez. Can’t opened upward the slide on the RV to make the bath (it’s on the superhighway side, too also dangerous). So, of course, I’ve trekked off into the sagebrush to...you know. What I actually postulate is to teach serpent bit. Then I holler upward we’ll receive got covered all the contingencies.
After iii hours waiting, nosotros were on our means again. Oy. We had a long twenty-four hours of driving ahead, too nosotros had to teach to our terminal destination inwards Vernal. So nosotros crossed the reason line, brushed off our most recent bad luck, too moved on.
What choice did nosotros have? And I'm invoking the "Nobody Died" dominion again, too calling it a practiced day.
Once nosotros got underway, nosotros passed through some various landscape yesterday. We saw all sorts of dissimilar things on our drive through the northeast corner of Utah. Lots of dry out grasslands...
Lovely light-green farming communities...
Rugged stone hillsides...
On our means to run into this formation, called Devil's Slide. It's ane of the items pulled from my Utah envelope. You tin read nearly it correct here. It consists of ii parallel limestone strata that receive got been tilted to prevarication vertically, protruding xl feet out of the mountainside. Intervening layers receive got eroded to a greater extent than quickly, forming a channel some 8 feet wide, too running hundreds of feet downwards the mountain
It tin easily live seen from the road, but at that spot are also ii pull-out areas where ane tin hop out too accept a picture. This is the sort of destination I mention to every bit "hop-out-and-hop-back-in." Some of my favorite places are such.
Shortly thereafter nosotros left I-84 for the commencement fourth dimension since leaving Portland, too allow me tell you, nosotros were pretty happy to live off the interstate for a while.
We began to run into the feature ruby-red stone of Utah.
It was belatedly inwards the twenty-four hours yesteryear this time. We've been going through the hottest constituent of the twenty-four hours amongst the generator running too the air-conditioning turned on inwards the camper for the kitties. The temperature had cooled considerably, too hence nosotros stopped off at this viewpoint to plow the generator off. Below, nosotros saw this dwelling. What a lovely house to live!
Here's a to a greater extent than expansive sentiment of the area.
Turning about 180 degrees, it looks similar this...completely different.
And too hence nosotros headed on downwards the route to our terminal destination.
It was good yesteryear dinner fourth dimension yesteryear then. You tin run into the long shadow cast on the route yesteryear our truck.
And afterward such an incredibly long day, this was indeed a welcome sign.
I'm finishing upward this post on the road. We're nearly halfway to our terminal destination of Canon City, Colorado, every bit I'm writing this, too we're stopped for luncheon too for Mike to accept a brusk nap. Before leaving Vernal, nosotros purchased groceries, propane, FUEL!, a plumbing fitting, too nosotros mailed off a alphabetic quality at the local post office. So far, hence practiced on our journeying today, too we've vowed to receive got a ameliorate day.
I’ll unopen yesteryear revealing the fourth of my mystery projects. It was a housewarming gift for my friend Gail, who has a shiny novel hubby too a shiny novel house. It's a designing from Bird Brain Designs. Originally done inwards dark work, I added only a hint of burgundy ruby-red to each panel.
Onward to Canon City. It's our in conclusion long twenty-four hours of driving for a while, too we're inwards Canon City for ii nights. H5N1 twenty-four hours off from the route volition live nice.