Alas, all good things must end...

It's time to go home, anyway. Every hard drive I have is completely full.

Worse, I'm beginning to hallucinate dinosaurs!

The past two days, the weather has been perfect, so I rushed around to all the best places and shot them again--without clouds!

If you look carefully, right under the curved swooshes of stone is a blue raft. Guardian angels on duty again!

Ten hours of driving tomorrow, so I'll be offline.It will be nice to get home and sort through 70 gigabytes of pictures and videos! (after some sleep)...

My Charley Brown moment...

After a couple of attempts to solve the Yampa Bench Road, today was to be the day. I drove to the eastern end (50 miles) then followed Yampa Bench into the country.

I have to admit, it was lovely country for cattle and horses:

My favorite guide book had said that there was a side road that led to a spectacular view of the Green River, which runs between the red sandstone cliffs and that white formation in this shot:

Charley Brown raced down the hill and headed for the football. Ah, but Lucy yanked it away! A chain was rigged across the crucial side road with a big sign that said, "Road Closed."

Score: Yampa Bench Road 53, aging moron still 0...

Still.I couldn't waste that sunny sky!  I raced to the Blue Mountain overlook, where signs complain bitterly about California's air pollution drifting here and reducing the visibility.

This was also a day to revisit Harper's Corner. I felt like sir Edmund Hillary!

Split Rocks was also bathed in warm colors, so I did a panorama to capture it.

Winding down today before the long drive to Vegas tomorrow. The sky is clear! Woo-woo!