GATEWAY — With each turn, Colorado 141 becomes more striking and surreal. I am driving the Unaweep Tabeguache Scenic Byway, north out of Naturita. I’m a few miles from the Utah border, somewhere south of Grand Junction. It’s all red rock, orange rock, grey rock, and an impossibly blue desert sky. The Dolores River has been sculpting this landscape with snowmelt from the San Miguel Mountains for 70 million years and the results are jaw dropping — and thrilling to drive.