• We followed the Highway 128 Scenic Byway along the Colorado River on our way from Grand Junction to Moab. It was here that we first saw cottonwood trees showing fall colors. These colors would punctuate much of our travels through Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

• Doug and the rented Chevy Equinox that we drove on our road trip in the Southwest.

• Colorado River

• A view east from near the Dead Horse Point Visitor Center. The blue in the middle foreground is part of a potash mining operation. The La Sal Mountains in the background are in Utah, just west of the border with Colorado.

• Setting out on the trail from the visitor center to Dead Horse Point.

• Solar evaporation ponds used in potash mining

• A view of the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point

• Can you find the dead horse in stone?

• Cairns marked the trail

• Dry potholes

• These naturally occurring sandstone basins are common and are called ephemeral pools or 'potholes'. They can be dry or filled with recent rain water.

• La Sal Mountains

• These rock formations are called the Monitor and the Merrimac. They are located between Dead Horse Point State Park and Moab.

• Canyonlands National Park

• Mesa Arch

• Mesa Arch framing the La Sal Mountains

• Buck Canyon

• Sue in a yoga pose at Balanced Rock

• Balanced Rock in Arches National Park

• On the trail to Delicate Arch

• Delicate Arch with the La Sal Mountains

• Delicate Arch

• Maggie at Delicate Arch

• Sue in a yoga pose at Delicate Arch

• Apparently Sue really started something

• Bill, Maggie, and Sek at Delicate Arch

• Doug, Kathy, Linda, Jim, Ellen, Eddo, Chris at Delicate Arch

• Ellen, Nick, Eddo

• Maggie and Bill

• Nick, Bill, Maggie, Sek, Ellen

• Ute rock art carved between A.D. 1650 and 1850

• North Window

• North Window

• Turret Arch

• North and South Windows

• South Window

• North Window

• Turret Arch

• Kathy at North Window

• Doug at North Window

• We hiked the Devils Garden Trail to Landscape Arch

• The span of Landscape Arch is more than 300 feet.

• Kathryn on the Devils Garden Trail

• Kathryn in our rented Equinox

• Kathryn and Doug at Four Corners

• Kathryn and Doug in four states at the same time

• The Four Corners Monument Site

• Kathryn at Teec Nos Pos Trading Post

• We have a rug made by a Teec Nos Pos weaver and have long wanted to visit this place near Four Corners.

• A view toward the Teec Nos Pos village