UTAH - Here We Come!

 It's November - and we used to take trips out of the country ALL the time in November - but not for the past few years!  But since the weather has been pretty decent out, we both decided a road trip was in order!

I looked into flying somewhere in the US but after checking it out, decided this was not the way to go since a lot of things are still shut down or very limited!  I thought about going southeast as we have always wanted to check out the beaches in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, etc.  But since we are planning to drive to Mexico again come February, that didn't seem like the way to go either.

So I decided THIS was the year we were going to go to Utah and see a couple of the national parks!  I can't believe we have never done this!! This way we could drive - not be in contact with a lot of people - and spend our time outside hiking at the parks and driving around - a perfect solution!

We headed out on a beautiful Sunday morning and our first stop was coffee at our favorite place in Johnson Village (by Buena Vista).

The drive was beautiful and I chose to take the route through Aspen since we hadn't been over that way in a while!  The mountains were beautiful with snow!

We stopped at a rest area (somewhere) and I noticed there was a Subway about a block away so we walked there and got lunch to go - eating it at the rest area where there was a nice park with picnic tables!

And soon we headed into Utah!

Our destination for the first 3 nights was Moab - the perfect spot to see Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park.  We saw the turnoff for both of these places before we got into Moab so at least knew where we would be turning the next morning!

The town of Moab was a MESS as they were doing construction through most of the town - it was zig this way and then zag that way - wow - I was SO glad we arrived before dark because you really couldn't tell where to turn off anywhere in the mess!  But luckily our hotel was a couple of blocks past the construction.

I had made reservations at Mainstay Suites - the place was extremely clean and had a kitchen so we could cook breakfast!  I had brought along an ice chest with breakfast and lunch items so it worked out perfect!

Dinner that evening was to walk next door to eat Mexican - very good!!  And it was so nice not to have to crawl back in that car and drive somewhere to eat!  To Be Cont'd....