Wednesday evening saw us camping in a small town in Utah called Green River. I don’t know why they call it Green River because that river was extremely brown. After getting our camper set up just before sundown, we walked next door to a nice restaurant for supper. Judy and I shared a pork chop supper and under protest, she also shared a chocolate cake covered with fudge and whipped cream. I will have to admit, I did eat the largest portion of it.
The day before while we were still north of Salt Lake City, I had to stop at a rest stop and nap. Upon waking, I read this sign about the Great Salt Lake that was here eons ago.
After breaking camp in Green River, Utah, we headed for Colorado. We had heard stories about Vail Colorado and how the movie stars all go there for skiing.
Needing gas, we pulled into a gas station and while we were pumping gas into our trike, guess who pulled in to get gas also. I was completely shock but standing next to the pumps next to us was Harry Bonnadorche. He never acted in the movies but he did stay in a Holiday Inn Express the night before. We were very fortunate to have seen him.
Soon after leaving Vail, we ran into the beginning of a tremendous traffic jam just prior to climbing the summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Besides the traffic backing up, Judy started noticing the weather was changing.
We could have walked up this mountain faster than we were driving. On top of that, the trike started overheating. There were trucks and cars and semis pulling over because they were overheating also. When we finally crested the top and started down, we came to this tunnel.
This tunnel carries I-70 under the continental divide 11,000 feet above sea level and is one of the highest vehicle tunnels in the world. It is 1and 3/4 miles long, and I thought that we would never come out of it. This is what the inside of the tunnel looks like.
When we exited the tunnel, we were so high up that it had just snowed. In the following pictures, you can see the light snow on the road and the next picture show light snow on the side of the mountains.
We had a hard time finding a camp ground that night so we spent the night just west of Denver.