DAY 40 surprised me with solid sleep, as with it being a truck stop and 80 degrees out I was sure I was going to be in for a rough night. Going to sleep the USB fan helped keep the air circulating, but it must have cooled down more. I woke up refreshed, although early and quickly got on the road so we could enjoy Canyonland National Park early in the day!

There is way too much to do for just a half day in the park. A little while after watching the park movie, we decided to take a short hike early on while it was still cool. The rest of the park we drove through and stopped to take pictures. The gallery has few key shots from the day.

We then set out to Arches National Park only a 30 minute drive. We checked out the movie there before heading into the park. It was pretty hot so we opted to only take a few short walks and one short hike in order to get some of the photos you can check out in the gallery.

Although night photography would have been spectacular there, we opted to leave before sun down so we could get a few more miles under our belt. We found a county road that dead-ended and chose to sleep there for the night. Let’s see what the morning brings, as we parked just before what we think was a private property marker. The sign was bleached white, so we weren’t sure.