Thursday, August 30, 2012, Monticello, UT

Thursday, August 30, 2012, Monticello, Utah
Today we are planning to travel to Monticello, UT. We left the Antelope Valley RV Park at 10:15 and crossed the highway to a Sinclair Station for fuel. Since fueling in Reno we have used 76.387 gallons of diesel and driven 476.4 miles through desert and mountains.

Along US-191

To get to Monticello we still traveled most of the way on US-50. US-50 goes through a lot of occupied country, rugged and beautiful in its starkness. US-50 runs concurrent with I-15 for about 15 miles from Holden, UT to Scipio, UT. I have to tell you the Interstate is much rougher than the back roads of US-50. A little past Salina, UT US-50 again runs concurrent with the Interstate again. This time it was I-70. Again the pavement was worse than when it was just US-50. At Crescent Junction we turned off I-70 onto US-191. It was another long stretch of road with very little shoulder. The highway featured passing lanes on every grade, and there were several with some pullouts for slow vehicles.
We passed through Moab. Moab is a bustling center for visiting the National Parks in the area. There are a lot of RV Parks in Moab to choose from. I think we will have to come here sometime for a long period of time. We have been in Canyon Lands National Park years ago on a Raft trip from Green River to Bullfrog at the upper end of Lake Powell, but we have seen it from the top.

The Wison arch south of Moab

We stopped once to photograph Wilson's Arch. We arrived in Monticello and the Mountain View RV Park at about 4:30 PM. There were some clouds in the area but storms never materialized. The park is small, 29 sites plus a few for tents. The pull through sites come with shade trees or without for us satellite TV viewers.
We had leftovers from yesterday's chicken dish, served with salad served on tortillas.

A fallen arch near Wilson Arch

We watched the speakers at the Republican Convention, as we have every night. The optimism and enthusiasm for this country was very uplifting. We can only hope that they defeat Obama and start turning this county around.
I still can't load pictures on my blog. I have sent an e-mail to the site administrators describing the problem. Hopefully they can resolve the problem.