Today we took Hwy 191 south to the Flaming Gorge Recreation
Area. The scenery is spectacular; so
much so that when you look at it, it doesn’t seem real but seems like it’s a
painting. We reached the dam and
reservoir and checked out the marina and a couple of campgrounds there. We were disappointed that none of the
campgrounds were on the water – an item that seems to be increasingly important
to us.
As most scenic roads, however, it was a two lane road, windy
and we climbed to 8400 feet, at times we had huge gorges on both sides of the
road - a very long way down to the
bottom. As anyone who knows me can
attest, I am nervous unless I’m on the “safe” side of the road. What really got me however, was an 8-10% downgrade
for ten miles of switchbacks with our brakes overheating (the smell is the
telltale sign).
I think in an effort to lighten the atmosphere, whenever we
stopped along the road to cool off the brakes, or came to a switchback and had
to brake to 20 mph from 40 mph, Norm would say “brace for impact” in his Scotty
of Star Trek accent, which made me laugh.
Just the same, I was delighted when we reached Vernal and stopped.
This campground is unusual in that it is in the middle of
town. It’s off the main drag in a gully
so you can’t even see it from the road but we can go walk around the town and
come back to what feels and looks totally secluded.
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