Grand Junction, Colorado

Snow in the shaded areas!  Old man winter is close!



You cant tell it from the angle but I had to cross on top of several "Spires" to get out on these rocks! Spires are finger-like rocks that stand straight up in the air.  These were over 500 feet tall!



Leaving Salt Lake City we headed southeast towards Moab,Utah.  As we neared Moab we made such good time we decided to continue on over to Colorado to a nice little town called Grand Junction.  We had all but written off Colorado due to time constraints so were excited to actually squeeze in some of it!  We stumbled across a brochure of Colorado National Monument in the office of the camp we were staying at so we decided to check it out. Boy are we glad we did!  The scenery was absolutely breathtaking.  It was approximately a 20 mile drive around the top of the "Mesas" with turnouts to stop and take it all in!  We took turns holding Bryson's hand because he kind of falls down all the time!!!!!!  We were able to walk right up to the edge of these Mesas and look down if we dared!   As you can see in some of the pictures we are dancing with the devil when it comes to weather with snow already on the ground!  After the Colorado National Monument Karen took the kids to a dinosaur museum and Norm and I took a little nap in the truck and then went for a walk in a nearby state park. Although we only stayed 2 nights Grand Junction was defintely worth the few extra miles to see it!