Day 5: Salt Lake City ahem Provo

map does no justice

highest point of the journey in all respects. took the scenic route, route 40 was just open to traffic after a bad snow day. passed many passes, highest being just shy off 12000 feet. suprising fact, my car was running as good as ever. the one thing which we did not need till then and did not know that dint work was the wiper. not the car viper, my car's windshield wiper. so there you go pouring water from t bottle
over the windshield while driving, excellente. so ran out of water soon. but before that did take a good 45 minute short trek at the highest point in our journey and we did get really breathless, both for the beauty of the place and for low oxygen.

spent a *lot* of time in the mountains, how about five hours!! on the way into the valley, spotted a bridge in the middle of the white landscape, with a board marked colorado. another stop, trekked down the bridge, stood and walked across the frozen river colorado. incredible feeling. also saw pugmarks of deers, elks and a big mark of a big heavy animal, certainly not an antelope. our speculation the Black Bear of Colorado. did not want to chance an encounter with either that one or the cop. but had to meet one of them, so we choose the cop. a good one too, who gave a souvenir. still needs to figured out, how much i gotto pay him for it.

start of a real arduous journey through two lane roads, mountain passes with lots of deers and an unbelievably strong headlight from my car (had to stop and make sure, it was on, after turning it on). road to provo through the canyon was incredible, unforunate part was that it was already dark.

utah was not a desert state, as originally thought...

miles: 513
fuel stops: 3
hours on the road: 12 (with 5 in the mountains)
states: Colorado, Utah.