Odometer Reading: 2,259 Miles (Winter Park, Colorado and Rocky Mountain National Park)
June 30th 2012 We departed Moab with a sense of a relief. The Utah dessert and the suffocating heat engulfing the Southwest were in our rear view mirror. The red dessert turned green and soon we were at the western foothills of the Rocky Mountains. As we arrived in Grand Junction, usually crystal clear skies were filled with a thick, dark smoke from the westernmost of three forest fires in the state. The Rockies
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