Utter Utah!

   How can you miss what state you're in when you drive out of Colorado?  Utah's dramatic carved mountains surrounded us as we drove west.

   Not sure who 'Bob' is (or his little plywood shed) - but he captured the feeling of Utah's desert plains and mesa tops with bright paint . . .  

 A trio of hoodoos stand guard in the desert near the entrance to Utah's Goblin Valley State Park.

  It was 102 degrees when we started our hike down into the valley.

  Hundreds of hoodoos filled the valley.  Walking through them was like wandering a maze . . .
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  . . . but the heat was so oppressive we couldn't stay as long as we would have liked.