Colorado, Arizona, and Utah

My wife's cousin sent a wedding invitation last April inviting us to the Grand Canyon for the nuptuals. Lindsey and I had been talking about planning a trip out west with the kids at some point and this seemed like the best opportunity to make it happen. It turns out that October in the west/southwest is the slow season, so we were able to pull off a 9 day, 3,000+ mile road trip with the kids. Colorado We left in the early hours of a Saturday morning with the hopes of making it to eastern Colorado. We ended up stopping for the night in Fort Morgan, about 60 miles east of Denver. There isn't much to see in Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska, so I don't have anything to say other than they're great states for wind farms. As we headed into the Rocky Mountains, we stopped at St. Catherine's Chapel on the Rock. The church has been there for about 100 years and has survived both wildfires and floods. It was a beautiful location at the base of Mt. Meeker and we enjoyed a few minutes in the silent…