Click the photo for a slide show of our drive from Durango to Moab, UT.We bade a fond farewell to Durango and Alpen Rose RV Park this morning. This was not without some trepidation, because we had driven the first forty miles of the road we had to travel yesterday on our way to Mesa Verde. Right out of Durango, there is a long uphill grade, about eight miles, if memory serves. As usual, though, Sadie behaved herself and there was no strain. All systems functioned as they are supposed to, even though we rose from 6,500 feet to 8,300 in a short time.
Once we cleared the mountain grades just about at Mesa Verde, we saw before us a vast sprawl of rolling hills, very lush and green. At Cortez, CO, we turned northwest on US 491. That took us into Utah, and at Monticello, we turned north on US 191 toward Moab. From Monticello, we lost nearly 3,000 feet of altitude coming into Moab. The terrain also changed from the lush green of Colorado to the red rock formations we were so familar with in southwestern Utah.
We are set up at the Moab Valley RV Park. Which is lovely. Our space has a nice shade tree and some lawn for Pogo. In fact as I write this we are sitting on the lawn. We have spurned the jeans and flannel is favor of shorts and sandals. Pogo got a bath, and she is outside with us drying off. The temperature is a balmy 85. We look forward to seeing two more national parks in the next two days.
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I have to say Tom, Jill is giving you a run for your money on the picture taking. The pictures are beautiful! Another job well done Jill. And one other question? Where did you find the little girl on the tricycle?
ReplyDeleteAbout the little girl on the tricycle: a travel trailer pulled into the spot next to us. The wife was jovially greeting us as she leaned out the window of the truck. Once they got parked, people just kept pouring out of the truck. Then another truck, pulling a trailer with ATVs on it, parked across the drive at one of the little cabins. Out poured more people. Turns out to be a husband and wife in the trailer, along with their three kids and four of their seven grandchildren. The rest are due today. It kind of turned our 12'X20' "yard" into living chaos. We have kids riding bikes and trikes through our camp and people sitting on our picnic table. I guess might makes right. We are trying to be good neighbors and understand their joy at being together as a family, but after all, we paid for our space, too.
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