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Day Three | Ablaze and Aglow! Deadhorse Point to Monument Valley The fourth day of our family roadtrip is the most eventful. For the second day in a row we wake up on the banks of the Colorado River, just outside of Moab, Utah. It’s just starting to get light when I wake up, the sun hasn’t yet risen above the 800-foothigh cliff walls that border the river. The air is invigoratingly chilly as I step out of our Wandervan to start the coffee and oatmeal water boiling. My wife joins me a few minutes later. Our three-year old daughter remain asleep tucked in snug and cozy on her bed in the warm van. The gray October morning brightens a few f-stops while the water heats. Coffee for me, cocoa for my wife. We pack up camp while we wait for the water. I shake the dew off the camp chairs, fold them up and tuck them under the van’s 22 <strong>Gateway</strong> to Canyon Country bed along with our marshmallow roasters. With our camp packed and our campsite cleaned up, I climb into the driver’s seat, my wife gets in beside me. Roo still sleeps in the back, safe behind the bed’s crash net. And on we drive to the day’s first of several destinations. I tune in NPR as I drive. The calm NPR voices blend nicely with the thrum of the van’s tires rolling across an American interstate. Coffee. NPR. Driving at dawn while the cliff walls of the Colorado Platea add color to themselves. And scroll by, and scroll by. Perfect. Along the way our daughter sits up in bed and asks where we were. “Well,” I reply, “it seems we’re driving across one of the most beautiful spots in the world.” Ten minutes later we arrive at Deadhorse Point State Park. I’ve never been to Deadhorse Point before. Nor has my wife or daughter. I drive to the visitor center and park. We step out of the van and then, Oh wow! Directly in front of us, facing east, we see six rows of cliff walls and mountain peaks. The morning sun is only 90 minutes above the horizon so we are seeing the shadowed sides of the cliff walls and mountain peaks which are varying shades of blue-gray. It looks surreal, like panes of blue glass leaning one on the other. The morning air is still delightfully cool, like leaning your cheek against a marble column. We spend 90 minutes walking along the trails at the leisurely pace of bib-
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