Monday, September 30, 2013

1,000 year old graffitti - Dinosaur National Monument

We spent Saturday walking around Park City. It's a nice, historic town even without snow. Sunday we went to Utah State Natural History Museum and spent the night in Vernal. Today we went to the Dinosaur National Monument since we were driving right by it on Rt. 40. Neither one of us are into the dinosaur thing, but it turned out we spent the whole day there. Besides dinosaur bones and fossils, there were a lot of petroglyphs ( thus the 1,000 year old graffitti) . We are back in Colorado - Dinosaur, Colorado to be exact.
Comments from Eldon: The drive from Park City to the Dinosaur National Monument was a pleasant drive - basically stayed on summits and quite majestic. The petroglyphs were a lot more interesting to me than the dinosaurs. Apparently this was one beautiful valley for hundreds of millions of years. This is the second time, the other being at Capitol Reef National Park, that we saw petroglyphs drawn by the Fremont people - apparently they liked to travel to.
Comments from Harry: I missed my nap today because I rode up front with Cindy & Eldon - so I'm going to take one now.


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