The Road to Wyoming
is paved with Fossils
North through Utah to Dinosaur National Monument, near Vernal.
The major attraction at Dinosaur is the visitor center, built over a cliff face chock full of dinosaur bones. My
co-worker Steve pointedout that if he had to own a dinosaur, it would be a stegosaurus...they're vegetarian
(so they won't eat you), will fit in a garage, you can open beer cans with their tail spikes and sell advertising
on their spine plates. The neighbor's boxwoods and azalias, however, might be in peril.
Marc was amazed by the bones in the rock.
The gift shop was an eight-year-old's dream, with plastic dinosaurs everywhere.
From Dinosaur, we headed north into Wyoming, passing Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
I-80 through Wyoming. They're hard to see, but on the horizon are some humongus wind turbines.
Marc polishes off a sandwich at a rest stop along I-80.
Fossil Butte National Monument is a remote park in southwestern Wyoming.
Much like fine-grained film makes for very detailed photographs, the fine silt that these critters were
deposited in reproduced very fine detail as they fossilized, even showing one fish eating another.
Next...The Grand Tetons