This morning we left Grand Junction by 7:00am. Andrew drove while Bethany slept between navigating. We arrived in Moab, Utah and were into Arches National Park by 9am. Since it was only in the 90's we went for a few hikes before the temperature went up into the 100's. We hiked around some arches known as Double Arch, the North and South Windows Arch and Turret Arch.We took plenty of pictures and Bethany experimented with the new camera (see the action shots of An...

"MOOSE" Yelled a kid in our campground this morning as we were putting the last of our stuff in the car this morning. About 200 feet from our campsite two moose (meese?) were ambling through the campground. They took their sweet time moving and were munching on some small trees when we caught up with them. As soon as we got somewhat near them, they emerged from the trees and began walking, slowly, in our general direction. At that point, we began m...

Wednesday morning we got up and grabbed breakfast on the hill - the neighborhood next to University of Colorado. We saw a number of interesting characters, and sat next to a guy on his cell phone who may be related to Earl Hickey and who used the term "bad karma" at least a half dozen times in his conversation. After a walk through campus and a short visit with Robert Frost, we went up to Rocky National Park and spent the day driving the length of the...

This morning we packed up our tent earlier than we would have liked because we couldn't watch our tent get pushed around by the wind anymore (Big Bully). We had a quick drive to Fort Collins, Colorado, the home of Colorado State University. We stopped at a cafe for a Fort Collins norm, breakfast burritos. Then we walked around town and the campus. There was barely any car traffic on the city's wide streets, and it seemed that everyone was on a bike. Next, we d...

From Hill City, we drove past Mt. Rushmore and took some more photos, then did a quick driveby of Deadwood, which actually was surrounded by hills full of dead standing trees (called "stags" - Bethany note), then drove through the Spearfish Canyon on our way back north to I-90. From there we crossed into Wyoming, and an entire day of pretty boring scenery, to be honest. The one obvious exception was Devil's Tower, which was unbelievable. After an hou...