We got away fairly early this morning from Glenwood Springs, CO. It was a bit tricky getting the motor home down from our elevated parking area and down the narrow exit road. We did not hook up the van until we got to some level terrain.

The drive west on I 70 was pretty as it was along the Colorado river. It was not very wide and not very deep most of the time but as we got farther west, it grew in size and there was even a dam across it with a small generating station.


We continued down in altitude following the river and of course the rail road. We did hear a train during the night however not a sound from a whistle/horn. I guess there are not any crossings along the tracks, as it has the river on one side and a steep mountain on the other.

The closer we got to the Utah state line, we lost a lot of the mountains and a lot of the vegitation and colors. The pretty red rocks turned to a dull tan and really did not have much worth while looking at.

We did see some oil wells, no pumps but storage tanks and areas where they were hauling out the crude oil, but no vegetation, living animals, birds or anything. Just barren landscape. It looked like something even the Indians would not want.

Evelyn did read in one of the booklets she picked up at the Welcome Center that 80% of the land in Utah was Government owned.

The most colorful thing so far is the Utah sign and we are well into Utah at Green River Campground, in Green River, Utah.

Tomorrow we will go west to US89 and go south to Circleville, UT for a few days to see the National Parks in the area and let our mail catch up with us.