From grand junction co to Wendover nevada
Gas $$ spent $37.02
Woke in my comphy bed and decided to go get breakfast. Got lost on my way down. Walked into a silent room of people staring at a tv showing people sheering sheep. This is so not what I want to watch while I eat. But I looked at my choices and nothing great. At an English muffin and grabbed 2 apples. Went to the house computer and did a few minor edits to my last two blogs and checked my Facebook. While I was doing this Brian stumbled by and told me he go lost on his way down too. I told him breakfast sucked and I was heading back to the room to pack up he said he would meet me back at the room.
We were out of there by 10am and back on the road after fueling up.
The more west we go the more the landscape changes. The Mountains are changing and are starting to look like the inside of grand canyon. The rock is turning colors. Some red some orange some black.
The radio is tuned to click n clacks country radio show. Which brian is changing all the words to the songs and I'm laughing so hard my abs hurt.
We pass groups of motorcycles heading to the big rally in sturgis. The earth is starting to heat up as we approach the desert. Thank god for ac. How do those motorcycles deal with the heat when the only breeze is hot and dry.
The funniest thing ive seen today was Motorcycle with a bicycle as cargo yes I got a picture it was too funny.
We entered Utah around 10:30am it was more apparent we were getting deeper into the desert the temp out side is rising, the earth is turning red and there is sand dunes.
We Exited route 70 at 11am heading towards mohab n arches onto route 191
Brian said it is starting to look like we are on mars.
Pulled off at a gas station and Found the mystery machine n scooby doo. I guess they r on a ghost adventure here in Utah. Silly scooby doo.
If you Ever come to Utah bring everything u need with you food, water, smokes , and of course bring your own beer. The Mormons have governed the beer in this state. It is near beer w lower alc content it's like drinking odooles. The beer here is only 3% beer. Ok back on the road since this guy just tried charging me $3 for 1 banana .
Heading south on 191 deeper into mars. We just Passed sign for canyonlands. I would like to check that out one day in the fall or winter along with Zion and Bryce.
We Arrived at arches national park around 1130am paid my $10 admission fee. Brian says our surroundings look like hell.
We Filled up water bottles at visitor center and wandered around the visitor center for a bit.
Went outside and Applied a ton of sunscreen. Then we
Drove up the mountain into the park. We saw long horn sheep crossing signs but none in sight.
We Drove by giant boulders balancing somehow on pillars of rock free standing. It looked like a mixture of mars, an old cowboy movie and what Brian imagines he'll to look like minus the flames.
There were rock formations that looked like Penis rocks. Creepy.
Around 1 pm we found the parking lot to hike to delicate Arch. Delicate arch is on the states liscense plates and the welcome sign to Utah.
The hike up to delicate arch was different. Alot more ups then I expected. And alot of hiking up big red rocks with patches of bright red sand. Around 2pm we reached delicate arch. What a sight. To think this was naturally made so big and so beautiful. looking around at our surroundings alot of questions come to mind. I'm sure if I googled them I would get my answers but for now I'm going to let my Imagination guess serinerios. It was very windy up by the arch. Nothing like a desert sand storm to cool you off but I really could have done with out the sand finding it's way into my mouth as well as coating my skin.
Round trip it was a 3 mile hike. With barely any shade. One the way down the wind kept us moving. It is hotter then hell out I can't wait to get to the car to find out the true temp.
On our way down we saw a mini side trail that said there were Navaho rock drawings. So we went down the trail and they were so cool. But we were disappointed that there was only one rock with pictures. Just then I noticed my Fingers were swollen i think im a little dehydrated even tho I have been drinking tons of water. We got back to the car and the thermometer read 105 degrees. And now I'm Slightly sun burned. it was around 3 pm . We Sat in ac n ate lunch with window reflector blocking sun. The ac felt so good. We are so Over the desert.
Time for a new adventure.
Around 4pm we were back on 70 n past the guy w $3 bananas. No signs of life nor gas stations for miles.
We finally made it to a town called green river. By the way the Green river is brown. Go figure.
People out here are scary . It's like the people of walmart's dirt monster tweeker series of people. Only these people have probally never seen a walmart.
Brian keeps saying he cant wait to get off Mars where they can only farm heat.
Around 6 pm we finally started to see green mountains and signs of life like we understand it.
Around 8pm we finally hit I-80 west at salt lake city Utah. The land of the mormans.
I'm sorry Cassandra that we didnt stop for the night but we still love you. We just needed to get a little farther down 80.
As we were Passing the great salt lakes Brian looked at me and asked if we were at the ocean even tho we were still in middle america. He said it smells like we were near sandy hook.
We drove by the Morton salt factory's and giggled about the giant piles of salt.
We got to the pull off to walk on the Salt flats after dark but still got out and took pics and tasted the ground. There was a sign explaining that these salt flats were where the land speed records were clocked and beaten. Good year tires was the sponsor of the sign cause that is where they test their tires.
As we were reading the sign a female Hippie hitcher approached us out of the darkness asking us for a ride to the next town with a creepy guy lurking in the darkness. I let Brian do the talking and it turned into a comedy show of Brian telling her no your not getting in our car. The best part was she said they ran out of gas and there wasn't a car in sight. Oh and she said she thought there was a gas station every mile. Ummm earth to hippy girl we are in the middle of no where and the land is flat. How did you think that. So Brian and I went back to reading the sign in the dark and waited till they walked away and we made our great escape and high tailed it to the Nevada border.
We crossed the state line into Nevada around 10pm. Ah yes casinos and real booze. All of a sudden my phone said I gained an hour but we don't hit pacific time zone till the cali Nevada border if I'm correct.
We got a room at the Golden nugget in wendover Nevada. Checked in and had to go find parking. Go figure lot on our side of the hotel was full so we had to go to the other side. On our way in we Got lost trying to find room. They make casinos like mazes so you can't escape. When we finally found the elevator two people hopped in with us. The lady had to have been a Hooker. Brian asked what floor she said 4. The door closed and their conversation went exactly like this. Guy " so what's your name again?" girl " candy, I remember your name it's Hank " guy " yeah Hank Williams, oh and how much is this going to cost me" then they exited the elevator Brian and I waited for the door to close and giggled up a storm.
After finally finding our room we decided to each take $20 and go gambling. I personally love the Penny slots . I like things that make noises and take longer to lose my $$
I found a slot machine big fish where if you matched up big catch 3 times you got to go fishing. It was so much fun. I turned $20 into $40 and had a blast for 3 hours. Then I lost my $20 and the $20 I had won but my theory is $20 for 3 hours of fun in a casino was so worth it. Brian put a $5 bill into the machine next to me and turned it into $25 so at least one of us is a winner.
We realized it was late and we should head back upstairs just after getting some over priced food.
I'm so beat yet so happy we are no longer in Utah.
Nevada is the last state that stands between us and California and I'm so changing that in the morning. Till then I'm off to get some rest.
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