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From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian)
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Subject: Re: Cross country through Colorado
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 21:20:13 EDT
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	I didn't think I70 out of Denver was that bad! In fact,
I thought it was one of the most interesting parts of the trip.
I had never been out west except to San Francisco and Denver.
Driving through the desolote parts of the west was really wild.
It looks so totally different than anything else I had ever seen.
All those buttes and canyons and nothingness! It was so weird.
	 I think you have never seen this part of the country
you should try to. It has a haunting beauty all its own. But
remember to leave with a full tank from Grand Junction, CO!
After that it's 170 miles(!) until the next gas station or
services.
	If anyone is interested, it is possible to make the
trip from Denver to Salinas, Utah in one very long day. We left
Denver at 6:30 in the morning, drove west, stopped at Arches
National Monument on the way(which was a detour of considerable
distance) and drove on to Salinas. Talk about temperature extremes!
It was in the low 60's when we left Denver. It was 30 when we 
crossed the Continental Divide and it was 105 at Arches.

Sharon Badian
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