After visiting with a company in SLC that owes me money, I ended up getting stuck there for several days because of snow. This first picture is me in the only RV park or parking lot where I could find a wireless internet link I could use. I spent two days looking too. Just happened to drive in the place because I knew of the impending storm, quickly hooked up to power, powered up the computer and did a wireless search and bingo!, there was one free wireless internet connection. So I ambled over to check in and pay. Ended up staying there 3 days because of the storm.
The day I left SLC, I headed south for a while and then east. Up in the mountains I stopped at a small town that had a dinosaur museum. These are the pixs from that visit…
These things all lived around here…
Strange, but true…see the raptor just on the right there, getting ready to attack? If it looks familiar it’s because it’s almost exactly like the raptor in the movie ‘Jurassic Park’. The director somehow divined (with the help of consultants and experts) that such a creature might exist. Turned out that this nasty was found here in the area 10 months or so after the movie came out (all according to the plaque next to the display), unknown to science previously.
Millions of years later, and a mere 12,000 years ago, Indians were bringing these mammoths down…
Chicken Itsa takes a break nearing the desert, on the way to Arches National Park.
What a view.
And another, but this time a rock.
I stopped at this arch because the big one, the one you know from all the pictures? The area around it, including the RV parks nearby were packed. I’d rather not be trampled by hoards of curious tourists like myself so I went to this arch. Smaller, but still cool. You do have to hike to this one, it’s about a 1/2 mile from the road, but the exercise is good.
One hundred or so miles down the road I found this arch. Pretty spectacular. I tried to get that color slash in the picture (just testing for it). I was surprised at the color.
A little closer.
And here’s me enjoying it.
Another few miles down the road.
