Stefan's Shipping off to Boston: Day 2

I'm in a major step upwards from the Motel 6 in the middle of nowhere, thatI was in last night. I booked the hotel last night using expedia or something, and it worked out really well. I thinkI'm gonna do this for the rest of the trip. Its a really odd hotel. Its got all the normal hotel-y type things, but it also has a full kitchen. Like full stove, full-size fridge and stuff. Weird.

I didn't listen to anything new or groundbreaking today, so I'm gonna talk about the actual trip, because it was much more exciting. The one actual cool music thing that happened was listening to Suburban Legend's “Bright Spring Morning” (the slow one, off Dance Like Nobody's Watching) while driving through the red hills of Utah. That was pretty awesome.
This drive was probably the best actual driving I've ever done. The routeis beautiful and the roads are fun to drive on. Lots ofnice curves and hills that keep it interesting rather than straight through the desert.

I also took Matt's advice and made a bit of a detour halfway th

rough Utah, and went to Arches National Park. That was a really great idea. Getting to Arches involves a southerly detour off I-70. Arches National Park is a really pretty park, that isn't to big, so it was great for me to just drive through and hi

ke a few short hikes. Actually I take that back, Arches is a large park, size wise, but the interesting parts are spread out in

a few pockets of really cool sandstone.

That was a really good way to break up the drive.

One of the more stunning parts of the this was the drive back. I decided to take a more scenic path back, so that I wasn't backtracking. This was an amazing drive. I followed a river northwards through a maze of sandstone canyons that

eventually opened up into a large hilly grassland.
From that I rejoined I-70 and took that into Colorado, where I got to drive through the Rocky Mountains. This was another g

reat ride, as it started out following the Colorado River through more canyons. But this was really cool, as the highway was basically a continous bridge that were built about 25 feet over the banks of the river and wound through the canyons. I wasn't able to take any pictures as it was curvy and fast, sorry.

Then I went over the Rockies themselves, which while pretty, my fully loaded car wasn't too happy with. Luckily I don't have any more giant mountain ranges, some smaller ones, yes, but no more Rockies.

Milage today was 632 miles. No MPG rating yet, as I haven't filled up on gas. Will report back tomorrow.

The plan for tomorrow is jogging northwards to Nebraska, and then a straight shot across to Omaha.