Day 3 – 09/17/2018
Today we slept in a bit since our plan was to just drive to Grand Junction and hang out and because we had stayed up a little late. We had breakfast at the hotel (I know, who cares?).
We finished driving through Idaho with a couple diversions from Google. For some reason it took us on a joy ride through the countryside thinking that would be the better route rather than just leaving us on the main highway where we could cruise at 80 mph. Debby decided she wanted in on the fun of going fast so she took over driving duties a while before crossing into Utah. 
She drove all through Salt Lake City, which was quite a task as that is a really HUGE city and took forever to get through. Later after having her fun she turned the driving back over to me. It was a good choice as I was not a very good navigator. Our plan was to go down Hwy 6 but due to my poor navigation skills we ended up going down I-15. It didn’t appear as scenic, at first, until we got to I-70 and then we were glad we took that route as we would have missed some beautiful scenery.
A little while after we turned onto I-70 we saw a rest stop/view point called San Rafael Swell. It was a beautiful canyon. There was a Native American there selling hand crafted items. I saw a neat little handmade Native American flute. It was a very popular spot. There were a lot of people there. I find it amazing how obnoxious people can be at these places. There were names carved into the rock and people would stand all over the rocks and didn’t really seem to care about anyone else. I waited for about 20 minutes to get a picture while some girl stood there taking a ton of selfies of herself.
There were some really interesting rocks that had holes in them that look like they were carved out with water.
Our next rest stop was at Devils Canyon. There was a little path to walk down to see it. I walked down it while Debby waited with the dogs. Then I came back and waited with the dogs so Debby could walk down and see it.
Since we were doing well on time we decided to go down to Moab and see if we could get a nice sunset shot somewhere. We looked online and found out about a popular sunset spot called Dead Horse Point. We went there for sunset and it was absolutely the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. Neither words nor pictures can come close to describing the awesomeness.
Once again we got the obligatory selfie.
After sunset we fed the dogs in the back of the car and headed on to Grand Junction, CO.
Somehow either the GPS or the navigator got mixed up when going to the hotel and took us to some small neighborhood in the middle of Fruita. We had to circle around and drive back down the same highway again to finally find the hotel.
We finally arrived at our hotel around 10:30 at night. The hotel was La Quinta Inn and was quite nice. They are very pet friendly. Highly recommended for people wanting to travel with their dogs.
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