Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Hitting the road

Today we left Vegas and set off on our cross country trip. We finished our last packing and showers, checked out, and hit the road a little after 9am. I was too busy moving out of SF during the planning and am sitting in the back where the radio is too loud to hear the front, so I have no idea where we are heading. Every stop is a fun surprise!

Minutes out of Vegas the scenery is nothing but desert. We cut through the corner of Arizona, where we took some pictures at a scenic overlook. We also stopped at a few of those in Utah, they are really nice. Soon it started being a little green, not much though. We stopped in Beaver, Utah at the DFA Cheese Outlet; it was a little underwhelming. Along the way we saw a storm approaching. We were trying to keep ahead, but it eventually caught up. Besides the torrential down pour, it was pelting down hail. After Nick mentioned the possibility, I was genuinely scared the moon roof might break. It didn’t.

It was early evening by the time we reached our first planned stop: Moab. We lost an extra hour crossing time zones. Afraid of the storm that we eventually got ahead of, we skipped out on camping in favor of a $59 hotel room and dinner at the local brewery. There are a few weird local Utah drinking laws, but not as bad as we expected.

[Edit] Link to Road Trip Photos:
https://picasaweb.google.com/kaitlyn.hanrahan/20100802RoadTrip#

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