Utah

From Blackfoot, ID, we continued South into Utah. We stopped at the Golden Spike National Monument, which was easily the high point of the trip so far for Micah. This is where the East and West tracks met, thus joing the East and West.

We then continued on to Layton, UT, a large and fairly unremarkable city, where we stayed for two nights. We didn't see any Mormons. But we did see a few billboards aimed at them (e.g. Want to know who Jesus is? Read the Bible!).

The following day we visited Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park, which is a museum combined with a park containing many life-sized dinosaur models. They also had a sandpit with 'dinosaur bones' buried at the bottom. Following this visit and for the rest of our trip, Reuben never missed an opportunity to dig in the dirt to see if he could find any more.

After a swim in the hotel, and a nice barbecue dinner at Famous Dave's everyone went to bed happy.

The next day, we visited the Hill Aerospace Museum, which is built on the northwest corner of the Hill Air Force Base. It had a lot of aeroplanes from various time periods. I'm not sure what else to say. I'm not really an aircraft guy.

 After that, we had a long drive to Monticello, where we stayed at the Canyonlands Motel, which was the second worst accomodation we had for the entire trip.

We had a whole day at Canyonlands National Park. I love this kind of terrain. So bleak and bare, but so interesting at the same time. We even saw an abandoned cowboy camp in a cave.