Utah, take two (California epic van trip, Post 12)

After giving up on our initial Utah destination due to impassibly deep sand, we headed further south toward some canyons we had visited before. The first time we were in this particular location, a year or two ago, we couldn’t take the road John had wanted to try because it was under water after a rare rainstorm. It’s been very dry, so our plan was to try again.

Do you see that little slot below the highway guardrail? John’s plan was to drive through that. In a 9′ tall camper van!

I was like, what? No way! That doesn’t even look like a road!

We crept down towards it anyway.

At this point I got out of the van to take pictures (and to avoid getting stuck in a van in a culvert).

Piece ‘o cake. That little slot was bigger than it looked like to me.

Turns out it was an official road.

With a good surface.

We drove a short distance away from the highway and into the hills and called it good enough.

We could still hear the highway in the distance, but it was not a busy road, not like the freeway of the previous night.

We got the van leveled out the old fashioned way, by driving up onto a pile of rocks.

It was a pretty spot.

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