On the road again...

I couldn't wait to get back on the road again and here I am sitting in a campsite at Escalante Petrified Forest State Park overlooking a beautiful lake in actual sunshine and WARMTH.

My sweetheart and I, plus two overly furry Suburban Huskies, left Denver about a week ago heading west through yet another Spring snowstorm in the Colorado High Country. Will I ever get tired of driving Vail Pass through the blinding white stuff? What could make it more fun than that... Well,  just for grins, how about we throw in a 26 foot camping trailer behind the truck that we're taking out for the first time? Creeping down the west side of Vail Pass in a snowstorm is a great place to see if the trailer brakes really work.

Those that know me would have sworn I'd never be caught dead in an RV as I've always been more of a tent-sleep-on-the-ground kind of guy. I guess the die was cast when we got a Sylvan GO tent camper, albeit at my better half's insistence, when we went to Alaska a couple of years ago (see some of my prior blogs about the travails of THAT trip) to accomodate all the cold and rain that the Yukon and Alaska could muster (and it was a lot). So yeah, I've become a cream puff in my golden years.

Fortunately we slid through Vail unscathed and the good news? That white stuff wimped out and turned into just pounding rain that would follow us off and on for oh, the last seven days. We did survive Glenwood Canyon without the now required rockfall road closure and Grand Junction actually graced us with a teasing touch of blue skies.

Crossing the line into Utah we took the back road from Cisco down into Moab where we stocked up on supplies (is there a nicer City Market in the whole wide world than the one in Moab?) before heading to our stop for a couple of nights at Dead

Horse Point State Park. I'll be putting up some video in a couple of days, but if you've been, you know what a pretty place that is.

From Dead Horse our next stop was Goblin State Park which I think is one of the best places to see this side west of the... Atlantic. Yesterday was a travel day, thankfully in nicer weather, taking us through Capitol Reef National Park and the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument before reaching our current abode. A special Thank You to our President and Congress for keeping the government open so we could get a glimpse of OUR national lands.

Weather forecast for Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is partly cloudy with temps in the 60's. I don't think we'll ever see the 70's this summer, but compared to Vail Pass in a blizzard, we'll take it!

Yukon admires the view
at Dead Horse S.P.