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16 <strong>Gateway</strong> to Canyon Country
Day One | The Rhythm of the Road Orangeville, Utah to Moab, Utah One of the greatest virtues an explorer can possess his the ability to put his or her home behind them, and focus on the trail, the road and the horizon before them. If you want to return home with a good story to tell, you must first travel beyond the horizon and encounter the tribulations, and self-doubt, the triumphs and glories – also known as the Life Lessons (or the Boon, as mythologist Joseph Campbell phrased it) – that lay there. Horizon, here we come! After leaving Orangeville, we travel north on highway 10 until we reach Price, where we turn east on highway 6 and soon thereafter we encounter light rain. The sky is the gray of oxidized zinc. Driving down the rain-wet highway gives us the illusion that we’re speeding down a canal flickering through the gray spectrum from dull pewter to polished chrome. The wet highway shimmers with lambent light and puddles flash like the CDs my mom hangs in her orchard to scare the birds away. The tires passing over the wet surface make a sibilant sound, the windshield wipers slap in 3-4 time. The scenery along this part of highway 6 isn’t particularly beautiful or stunning. The terrain consists of gray tropic shale with few plants growing on its nutrient-poor soil. Through the passing millennia rain storms and melting snow have eroded the bare, gray hills into shapes like pleated, bell dresses, flying buttresses, the sinews on the neck of a straining man. But all that gray does nothing to dull our moods and the rain does nothing to dampen our spirits, for there is something very special, and invigorating, about the first day of a roadtrip. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a road-tripping family. Every summer we took a trip to Montana for a family reunion, as well as a trip to Flaming Gorge and the Hite section of Lake Powell. Every three years we’d take a long road trip. One year we traveled from Utah to New York and Washington D.C. Another year we drove up the California coast. Three or four times a year I helped my dad load the camper onto the back of our truck, and off we’d go. Wherever we traveled my siblings and I watched vast swathes of our beautiful country roll by from the camper’s window over the cab. Roadtripping in a campervan or a camper is one of the best ways to see America. It’s a movable basecamp. Up front, the driver and navigator read the maps and scan for roadside attractions, while in the rear the kids get to chat and play games. A roadtrip in a campervan is like a mullet: business in the front. Party in the back! My dad took a lot of photos during our trips and when we returned home www.<strong>Gateway</strong>toCanyonCountry.com 17
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