{"id":8764,"date":"2023-04-08T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:35:33","slug":"day-4-utah-wyoming-and-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/day-4-utah-wyoming-and-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 – Utah, Wyoming and Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we woke up in Twin Falls it was -3 degrees. It didn\u2019t actually feel that cold but that\u2019s what the weather app said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boys burnt off a bit of energy while Jon and I readied the trailer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rock Creek RV Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And then we hit the road around 11am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our goal was a BIG day of driving. We were aiming for Fort Collins, Colorado which was 9 hours and 45 mins not counting fuel stops, bathroom breaks, lunch and dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The weather hovered around 0 degrees for most of the trip\u2026..it did get as low as -7 through Wyoming and it was as high as 7 in Utah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scenery alternated between completely white out as far as the eye could see; to snow on the hills in the background to snow dusted mesa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stopped for gas once we made it into Wyoming and it was surprising how much snow and how cold it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Compared to the white knuckled windy driving of the day before; this leg of the journey seemed easy. The roads were dry and clear which was nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We saw lots of tiny deer while driving through Wyoming and even a couple of elk along side of the hwy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love seeing the wind turbines. They are SO huge and seem to move so majestically which feels weird to say about a metal structure but I just love the look of them. Like guardians watching over the land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because it was a huge day of driving, we ate fast food garbage for lunch and dinner but it was the boys first time trying Arby\u2019s (lunch but no photo) and Sonic. Sonic was a bigger hit than Arby\u2019s. We still have to hit a Jack in the Box at some point. Any other suggestions for these Canadian Boys to try?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some time after the sun went down, the moon started to rise over the horizon. It was HUGE and so stunningly bright and orange. Pictures don\u2019t even remotely do it justice. It was amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was interesting how late the sun stayed up but then how quickly night fell. It felt like you could actually see the darkness taking over and growing in depth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pulled into the KOA in Fort Collins around 11:15pm; were set up by 11:30pm and in bed by midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are planning for a much shorter day for Day 5! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we woke up in Twin Falls it was -3 degrees. It didn\u2019t actually feel that cold but that\u2019s what the weather app said. The boys burnt off a bit of energy while Jon and I readied the trailer. And then we hit the road around 11am. Our goal was a BIG day of driving. … Continue reading “Day 4 – Utah, Wyoming and Colorado”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,12,43,69],"tags":[132,130,133,120,121,115,127,113,131,114,116,128,129],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-road-trip","category-family","category-memories","category-rving","tag-april","tag-colorado","tag-day-4","tag-family","tag-koa-campground","tag-road-trip","tag-rv-park","tag-rving","tag-snow","tag-travel","tag-usa","tag-utah","tag-wyoming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_4389-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}