A Visit to Salt Lake City, UT - October 2002

I arrived at Cortez, CO, from Moab, UT, about 10:30, a two and one half hour drive. Realizing that the next stop was several hours away, I searched out a local motel and spent a pleasant night at the Super 8 Motel in Cortez, CO.

The drive down US 666 the next morning took me past Shiprock, NM, a cool formation which is remnant of a volcanic eruption from the Pleistocene era. 

The drive from Cortez to Gallup and then I-40 east to Albuquerque was uneventful. I made it in four hours. Albuquerque to Amarillo, TX was another 5 hours. After a short stop for dinner at the Olive Garden Restaurant on I-40 in Amarillo, I managed to get to Dallas and home in only 5 hours down US 287.

Total drive time from Cortez to Dallas was 16 hours, an easy but long trip made more interesting by listening to a book on tape, in this case the crime novel True Justice by Robert K. Tannenbaum.