DAY 15
Week 3
EAGLE (Colorado, USA) to PROVO (Utah, USA)
via MOAB (Utah, USA)
Friday January 20th, 2006
TODAYS MILEAGE – 443 miles or 713 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 3757 miles or 6046 kilometres
A pre-dawn departure from the Eagle Holiday Inn Express saw me grabbing some breakfast and offering a lift to a hitchhiker on the outskirts of Grand Junction (Colorado).
In the 80 odd miles (132 km) drive to Crescent Junction (Utah), the turn off to Arches National Park, my "people radar" was pinging off the charts. There was a whole lot nothing adding up to what this fella was saying, with the major thing being he had to be in St George (Utah), but was fine heading to Salt Lake City (Utah), which 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
By the time I got to the Arches National Park Visitor Centre, I decided to speak with one of the Park Ranger about the hitchhiker. Within an hour, I had spoken with both the Utah Highway Patrol as well as the Colorado State Patrol and went over the entire episode.
The relevant authorities said they'd get back to me, so I off I trundles to check out the world-famous Delicate Arch.
• EAGLE (Colorado, USA)
• MOAB ~ Arches National Park (Utah, USA)