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Day 12 Sometimes It’s Just Hard

September 26, 2013 By Chris Estes

We headed away from Slot Canyon Inn early, so we could get a full day in at Zion.  This was one park Jenn hadn’t researched thoroughly, mostly because she was running out of steam PLANNING our odyssey, even before we embarked upon it. So we left our little slice of heaven B&B (where horses grazed […]

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Day 11 – Detours

September 18, 2013 By Chris Estes

Grazing at the inn

This is what we THOUGHT would happen on Day 12, so we used a journalism trick and wrote the story we would have…. Today was a rest day.  We lingered at the B&B, Chris took pictures, we eventually hit an art gallery, a really cool coffee shop perched on the side of a canyon. Then […]

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Day 10 – Moon Rises

September 18, 2013 By Chris Estes

Clearing Out

Well, when you go through what we did yesterday, asking the driver to take the wheel again immediately is ballsy, especially when you will be re-tracing your trip over mountains and crazy two-lane roads at near 9,000 foot elevations that drop off on either side AND have no guard rail.  But Jenn asked if they […]

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Day 9 – Heaven, Hell, and the Roads that Connect Them

September 17, 2013 By Chris Estes

Bridge over the Colorado

Sometimes the world is trying to tell you it is going to be a bad day. We’d done our version of Moab. No mountain biking or off-road driving, no ATV rips through wilderness. Arches we described earlier. Day 8 of touring was a place called Island in the Sky unit within Canyonlands National Park, with […]

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Day 7 – Even Jenn runs out of words

September 13, 2013 By Chris Estes

Arch in the distance

Jenn Rigger wrote this but is too tired to post. Today, we ventured from our idyllic lakeside location in Colorado to Moab, UT.  Once we got out of the Rockies, there was kinda nothing as far as the eye could see, and by nothing, we really mean, NUFFIN.  The funny part of this drive was […]

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Day 6 – The car cries “Uncle!”

September 12, 2013 By Chris Estes

Weather closes in

After 1,585 miles, one collision, several gravel roads and close encounters with many forms of wildlife, the Hertz Altima gave up. Slow leak of the tire hit by the minivan. This happened halfway through Rocky Mountain National Park. In the meantime, clouds settled over the twisty mountain road and we, too, surrendered. Vacations  in nature […]

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