This morning, with great reluctance, we said goodbye to Keystone, with its resident and migratory population of Granties and Gruncles, and headed west over Vail Pass, down Glenwood Canyon and out into the Great Basin. We had decided that the day's drive was a light one, and we could afford a detour down Highway 128, the "Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway," to Arches National Park.
We told the kids that there would be no movies played that day, to keep them looking at the country as we listened to books on tape instead. We had, in any case, been unable to find any Road Runner and Coyote cartoons on DVD, and knowledge of Looney Tunes is a definite gap in the Cultural Literacy of our Third Culture kids. They were left to admire the beauty of the Balanced Rock on its own merits, without pondering how to knock it off its pedestal and crown a passing roadrunner.
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