Day 24 Sunday 8th August 2010
From Glenwood Springs to Torrey Utah 292 Miles 470klm
Leaving Glenwood Springs at 9am and the skies looked very grey and we are sure that rain is imminent, Alan puts his lid up on the car, and we are off. Just a few miles out of town the rains came. It rained for a few miles as we rode down the road leaving Colorado and the rain behind.
The vastness s of the deserts, and the rock formations are something else, we ride into Utah and again the countryside changes...Alan is leading us into the Capitol Reef National Park, nothing could have prepared us for the dramatic rock structures which are just magnificent,( I think I took over 200 photos )as the road twisted and turned and the scenery changed colours from dark black ,to black, white to red, slivers of rock to big boulders, hanging rocks, with the river trickling thru, just unbelievable, it really is a sight, I don’t think the photos will do it justice.
We arrived at Torrey a little oasis in the rock formations and tried to book into the motel, but our rooms were not ready so we had lunch in a little cafe up the road, and then the heavens opened up with a lot of thunder and lightning, just as we finished lunch the blue skies were back and we headed back to the motel. We are having dinner in a little cafe across the road.
Being Sunday in Utah most stores are closed
Can it get any better than this??????
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