Day 4 - Yellowstone to Green River, Utah

I was tired of the mountains by now. I wanted to see a different type of landscape and I knew that Utah would provide me that. But we had to cross the northwest part of Yellowstone before we could reach the highway I-20 starting from West Yellowstone. Who knew that we would be slowed down by a group of bison trying to cross the road for greener pastures?

We should have known that it was a sign for worse things to come. By the time we reached Salt Lake City it was almost 3-00 in the afternoon. The temperature was in the high 90s and we were all heated up, both mentally and physically. And then there was this traffic jam. We tried to be smart and take a parallel road in order to bypass this commotion. And that’s it – stuck for another 3 hours, reminded me of the first scene from “Office Space” – this old man with crutches going faster than the car.

And finally we were able to breathe some air as we left the highway to take the short cut to Green River, Utah. This is also a small city in the midst of canyon lands, supposedly beautiful. [I tried Moab, but accommodation in Moab was expensive – so we decided we would stay a few miles away from Arches.]

And then came the landscape right out of the western movies:

We were thrilled suddenly to be surrounded by this different form of topography. So, Utah was it – the best state so far when it came to scenic beauty. We had miles and miles of road in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by canyons all around us:


By the time, we reached Green River – we knew that we made the right decision of visiting Utah.