rolling dry desert, distant treeless mountains for miles, then you drive around another curve seemingly like the previous curves and bam! The landscape changes in an instant! black, red, gray rock, cinders and very little vegetation for as far as the distant treeless mountains. Craters of the Moon National Park is an area of a fairly recent-2000 years ago- lava flow, or flows...no volcano, but a rift in the earths crust where lava oozed or poured or exploded out at various different times. the area is connected to the Yellow stone area, in that the earth's crust moved over the hot spot...which does NOT move...just the earth's crust moves, and now the Yellowstone area is over the "hot spot"...very cool place!!!
Moved on toward Utah and passed the World Potato Museum...no time to stop....We are in Ogden, Utah tonight. Plan to swim in the Great Salt Lake in the morning, visit the Homemade Cheese and Curd store beside the hotel and end the day in Craig, Colorado. We will be driving on old route 40.
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