12 DAYS: DAY SIX, VERNAL, UT TO HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS, CO
BEAUTIFUL, MAJESTIC, DESOLATE LANDSCAPE THAT STRETCHES TO INFINITIYeah, starting to look pretty scruffy there.
I’ll fix it when I get home… and feel all great about it. Heh.
But let’s talk about northern Colorado.
Damn… what beauty.
A lonely and endless landscape.
And man does it stretch out in front of you.
Here the sky meets the earth with a sudden impact that is breathtaking to behold in every direction.
The sound of the motor is all that accompanies you along the road dotted by cattle guards and the occasional pothole.
Pickup trucks are the preferred vehicle for locals, while the tourists zip by in fancy mini-vans and imported sports cars.
I like to sit and watch the cars come by… every fifteen minutes or so.
Maybe.
This is when it hits you just how alone you are in the vast land that surrounds you.
And how important your vehicle is to survival.
I can only imagine getting off the road here and having trouble.
Without a SAT-Phone or similar, it would be a long time before someone found you.
And I suppose that may not be all bad.
I have a profound dislike for crowds, traffic, and the general ‘big city’ bustle.
But I wonder if this may test my longing for being somewhere where things move a lot slower.
Or not.
Damn, I love this stuff.
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE… OR AT LEAST MONTANA
Buy me lunch or a tank of gas and I will print and mail you a personalized one of a kind postcard from my trip. Cards will be posted on September 28th.
I went through Steamboat Springs.
Massive traffic in the middle of mountain paradise.
It was like a total disconnect for me. Like a big city planted right in the middle of the Colorado wilderness.
Lots of Cannabis stores and ‘dispensaries’ interspersed with a wide and very diverse collection of restaurants and spas.
NOT… my kind of town.
The road from Vernal to Hot Sulphur Springs didn’t have any twisties, or challenging switchbacks.
Just a lot of incredible beauty and a nice, simple hiway.
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