Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzz!seb From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Cross country through Colorado Message-ID: <1065@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 21:20:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1065 Posted: Wed Aug 21 21:20:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:03:47 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 22 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 ihnp4!mtgzz!seb