crusing through Utah

After pulling out of Salt Lake City. I really enjoyed the colors.
The story goes that a five star chef in LA got tired of cooking for yuppies and decided he wanted to do something more 'real.' So he opened this place in the middle of nowhere. The biscuits were top notch.

We saw a bunch of people in hot air ballons just outside salt lake city. I guess you have to entertain yourself somehow.
We would have hooked the van to a balloon and blew on in to Kansas, Dorothy style but we had to go to Denver first.

The terrain is so bizarre out here. That it can change from these very jagged pinkish mountains with red bushes to expansive plains with flat top plateaus in a matter of an hour is pretty incredible.
Driving into Colorado we begin to notice how incredibly huge the sky has become. The clouds come in different types based on the elevation and they are reminiscent of the layers on a cake. I'd need a 360 degree camera to effectively capture the expanse of sky.