Here's another.
I have to say that the piece of I-70 between, oh, Grand Junction, Co, and the intersection with I-15 south of Salt Lake has to be the most spectacular piece of road I've ever seen. I didn't even try to photograph the scene - the scale dwarfed any attempt to capture it. Basically, it's the region between the Colorado River and the back side of Utah's Front Range. It is unbelievable. Think old John Ford westerns; think of the West you imagined as a child. There's an enourmous tableland, covered with grass, sage, and the occasional pine, that slope down to the west. It's riven with twisty, tight little canyons which thin out as the elevation increases on the Colorado side. Looking West, the tableland disappears into a huge basin that must be at least 50 miles across, filled with mesas. The far edge of the basin is delineated by the back side of the Utah mountains. The scale in unimaginable - you can see literally hundreds of miles of the mountain range at a time, and it's clear that where it runs out of site to the North and South, that it just keeps going. To the south the elevation drops until it runs into Zion and the Bryce Canyon area. The colors are incredible - deep reds, grays, yellows, white, green...
It really was stunning, all the more so because the portion of Utah that I'd seen before was an absolute wasteland. Funny - I think the only part of Utah a lot of people see is the section I-80 crosses. That area, between Salt Lake and Bonneville, is the most desolate, ugly piece of country I've seen. I had no idea the rest of the state was so spectacular! It defies description - you have to see it to believe it.