We woke up bright an early again today and were greeted with a great view out our windows, the skies were clear and although the temperature had fallen to 41 overnight, it didn't feel that cool.
Good Morning from Central City, CO
By now we have settled into a pretty good routine as we headed west from Central City at 7am and got out on I-70 headed towards Utah. Originally I was thinking we were going to brave it out and take the more mountainous pass through Colorado on our way to Cortez, but I had a change of heart late the evening before and decided to change our plans a bit. The route through Moab UT only added about 45 minutes to the drive and significantly reduced the stress for the day.
As we headed out, Emmett said "Thank you for taking us to these beautiful mountains"
We climbed up through the mountains along I-70 and hit 10,000 feet at around 7:30 and the temperature had dropped to 36 degrees, the Highest point along the route was somewhere above 11,000 feet, which I think was near the entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel
The family was enjoying the views out of the window and Kelly was able to catch a few photos out the window.
We crossed the border into Utah just before noon and stopped for lunch about 30 minutes later at a rest area, by then, the day had grown sunny and 75 on us and the kids enjoyed stretching their legs a bit at the visitor center which was part of the rest area.
We found out on our lunch stop that 11,000 feet was apparently too much altitude for some of our groceries, we found some popped snack bags and a milk container that had popped it's lid and splashed milk all over the inside of our fridge.
After our lunch break we headed on to Moab, which is were we will be later in the trip when we visit Arches National Park. We got a glimpse of what's to come as we drove through.
After another few hours drive from Moab, UT we crossed back over the border into the southwest corner of Colorado and arrived at our destination for the day about 4pm. We set up camp Cortez KOA and had a nice relaxing evening, including some pool time for the kids.
