A Little Roadtrip

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my husband for going along with my whims and need to get out and go somewhere.  Even at the last minute.  So yesterday, we packed up the kids at about 11:30 in the morning and headed out. 

We went to Price and had lunch.  Wendy’s in Price seemed a lot better when eating there late at night with your cousins after an awesome Lake Powell trip.  It wasn’t the same, especially with Austin (who has figured out that this is an EXCELLENT tactic to get out of somewhere he doesn’t want be-including sacrament meeting) yelling that he needed to go poopy and running to the bathroom every five minutes. 

We stopped at the visitor center and got some maps and booklets then headed south towards Goblin Valley.  It was a little further from Price than we had first thought (when leaving home) but decided to go ahead anyway.  It was almost 2:00 before we left Price and we got there a little before 4:00. 

We saw them replacing railroad ties along the way.  It was pretty cool, especially because we had an idea what they were doing after having watched a Mighty Machines episode about it with the boys.

I’ve never been, despite the fact that we drove past it for almost ten straight years when we would go to Lake Powell every summer (sniff sniff).  I always get a little thrill when I start to see the scenery change to things like this:  

I’m glad we made the trip.  It was really cool to see and a lot of fun for the kids.

You can actually go down and walk through the “goblins” -- so that’s what we did!

I got a little bit of cooperation for a few ‘posed’ pictures too!

Now this last pose was really hard to get……that’s it now, just hold still…..

We decided to take the back road to get back onto I-70.  We knew it was a dirt road and a little under 30 miles long.  There was still plenty of daylight so we thought, hey, why not?  It was slow going but it was fun to see some more scenery!

     We had to take a little break….

Hey, a boy’s gotta do what a boy’s gotta do!

I’d also never been on this part of 1-70.  It also had some amazing scenery and a lot of view areas.  We only stopped at this one, but it was so cool!

 

It was just sunset when we pulled into Salina and had dinner at Denny’s.  

We got home almost 10:30, so in less than 12 hours, we saw some of Utah’s amazing scenery and had quite a fun time!

Thanks for joining us on our little trip!