Sunday, August 3 Utah, Colorado Nat'l Monument

 Sunday, August 3

Nice cool morning as we continue east and enter Utah and Mountain Time Zone around 9:30. 

This ranch entrance caught our attention.  That's a lot of animals!

Route 70 has some very nice scenery for a while.  We stop a few times to stretch and look around.

Then things go back to flat and bland.  We opt to bypass the exits to re-visit Goblin Valley, Arches and others for reasons you no doubt can already guess.  We look ahead to Colorado National Monument which is at the border and are pleasantly surprised to find many sites available on their on-line reservation system.  It is at a little higher elevation, so we hope it won't be terribly hot.

As we begin to climb the road through the red rocks,  we come across this big horn sheep who crosses the road in front of us, then poses for a moment before continuing to climb.

Even the lizards are looking for shade.

It is close to 100 degrees at the campground, though considerably less in the shade.  The site Beth blindly picked doesn't have much of that, so we move to another and then fix things with the congenial camp host.  Everything is done with reservations on line and he shows us how to change sites easily (so no one else will try to reserve the new site we moved to).

We walk a little, but mostly hang out in the shade.  Things cool nicely as the sun goes down.  We eat dinner outside and play some cribbage.