June 5: Denver to Moab, Utah
Before we left Littleton, we took a family photo of our families – Berkeley and me.
Hondacar started at 118313.
Joan and I left Denver, and she made a wrong turn and did not go on I-70. It was funny and she said, it’s vacation, it doesn’t matter. So we turned around and headed up the mountain. As compared with our drive on Saturday to Denver, when I slept the whole time, today I was awake almost the entire day because the scenery was so grand. There was so much to look at. Our first stop was a scenery stop but Joan realized she had to go to the bathroom so we continued on to the Vail Pass rest stop. Joan told me she biked up to this spot last summer. Here is a photo of it:
Then we went to the Vail Dog Park. It wasn’t that big (nothing like Minnehaha dog park in Minneapolis) but it got me out and about.
Then we went to a restaurant at Vail – Bart & Yeti’s. There was tons of construction going on, so I was FREAKING out, as you might imagine.
We continued on through Colorado to Utah to go to Dead Horse Park. Utah's entry sign just had something about the Olympic Games - we thought it could have been better. We took the scenic route (meaning that I was fully awake to watch everything) - and twisted our way through rock canyons along with the Colorado River.
We got to Moab and almost started driving to the park, but Joan realized we needed gas, so we went back to Moab to get gas, and Joan called the park and found out they were full. In the end, we stayed at a motel of sorts. We got our key and then drove out to do an evening hike.
Back at the room, I was FREAKED me out until I got to sleep on the bed with Joan. Someone knocked on the door (it turned out it was the door next to ours) but I barked super loudly at that! I definitely kept Joan safe in there.
We added a few more states to our license plate game today. They include: