As our intended visit to the Colorado National Monument did not happen last night we set out early this morning to avoid the heat and the crowds.
We jumped into our Toyota Camry car rental and up the mountains, we went. Pete said it was nice to drive a car for a change. I have yet to participate in the driving schedule. Mountains are probably not a good start.
The sheer-walled canyons were spectacular. I got lots of photo stops along the way.
The boys joined the junior ranger programme and were keen to fill out their activity books and gain their first ranger badge.
At one of the viewpoints, there was a park ranger who gave us some information about the area. One of the rocks that we were able to hold was two billion years old, two billion years old… It really was incredible to hold something so old.
After taking enough photos to almost drain my phone of juice we drove back to downtown Grand Junction for lunch and another look around town. Lots of street art, lots of great places to eat, lots of lovely shops and lots of beautiful buildings. Probably one of the cutest towns we have seen.
We ended up having lunch at the Main Street Cafe, an American 1950’s-style nostalgia packed Diner. I had seen it yesterday and had taken lots of pics, today we got to eat in the Marilyn Monroe room, perfect!
Back to the RV Park after lunch, a load of washing, school work, catch up and a play in the games room for the boys.
At about 5.15 pm it was time to take the car rental to refuel (with gas) and return it to the depot. Down to Main Street for some delicious Japanese from Suehiro Japanese Restaurant and then in an Uber with the cutest 80+-year-old Uber driver.
A lovely end to a lovely day.
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