Big Country!

I haven't posted for the last few days because we've really been making tracks. We left California a few days back passing through San Francisco and lots of mountains. CA really is a gifted place. Anyway, we progressed through central Utah via our own US 50. The landscape is bizarre, rugged, majestic, & sterile. It's easy to see why few ventured there until recent times, and I could easily see water issues or energy shortages reducing it again to its former obscurity. We stopped in Moab, UT to see the Arches National Park. It's named for the numerous arches & other weird formations found there. Pics of this park are the lighter, reddish colored ones. The 6th pic is of three columns called the Three Gossips,...can you see why? Next we moved onto Gunnison, CO to see the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. There are rock climbers in the first photo where the "wing" on the left meets the first cliff front...but you'll never be able to see them no matter how much you enlarge-just specks. Last in this post are pics of the Royal Gorge near Canyon City, CO where the country's highest suspension bridge, built in 1929, spans the gorge & the Arkansas River. It's a little unsettling to walk over it & peer down through the wooden planks of it's surface. Tonight we're in Colorado Springs. We stopped here specifically to go to the Flying W ranch for a chuck wagon dinner and cowboy concert, but the guys are out of town at (believe it or not) a chuck wagon convention! Tomorrow we'll see a few local attractions before setting our sights on Texas.