Road trip

We recently needed to renew our driver's licenses. This meant we needed to get to South Dakota, but we weren't planning a trip that way so we decided to make a "quick" road trip to Rapid City. Gail needed to get there before the 22nd and for Bill, after the 3rd put him within 6 months of renewal.

Capitol Reef

Look Ma no shoulders!

So we rented a car from the Cedar City airport on a Friday, left the truck there, drove down to St. George to our son's to cat sit, then back to Escalante (this is a 2- 21/2 hr trip just to Cedar City). Then on Sat. after work we left, headed east for a couple of hours to get on the road. First stop Grand Junction, CO. The drive from Escalante to I-70 is pretty scenic, along a hog back road, over the mountains, through the Capitol Reef NP area and to some pretty desolate area but very unique landscapes. Out in the middle of nowhere is a bakery with homemade bread. We had to stop and stocked with 2 loaves of bread we had some road food.

Drive, sleep, drive to Colorado Springs, on I-70 over the Rockies and through the Eisenhower tunnel at 11,000+ feet. Still some snow, lots of ski resorts, skirt west of Denver and we're in the Springs for a night. We we're able to visit with our good friends,old neighbors the Durstons. Haven't seen them in about 2 years so it was a great visit.

Day 3, the last leg to Rapid City. Mostly freeway until north of Cheyenne then secondary roads. Pretty much an all day drive. Next morning, up and down to the DMV for appointments at 8:30. The appointments weren't necessary, took 10 minutes to fill out the application, have all our documents checked, eye test, photo and we were both done by 9:00! Good for another 5 years.

We picked up some breakfast and bagels, made a beer run for the folks back in UTAH and hit the road, this time returning by way of Wyoming and the interstate to Salt Lake and to St. George, UT. Nothing too exciting to report on about Wyoming and more specifically Rock Springs. Not a good place for an inexpensive, clean hotel but a good stop for Mexican food and a pitcher of margaritas!. Picked up a little more beer.


We ended up in St. George for the night, got to see the son again, stocked up on groceries, picked up the cat in the morning and returned the rental to Cedar City.

First thing driving into the parking lot next to the truck we notice that the generator, that sits on the back in GONE!!
Crap. Stolen sometime during the last 5 days. Reported it to the police but I doubt we will ever see it again. Just something else we need to get again before leaving for Alaska.

So to recap, 5 days driving, 930 miles round trip all for 10 minutes at the DMV. Not priceless.