We had originally planned to spend another day in around Vernal and Flaming Gorge, but we were both feeling ready to head closer to home. We visited the Dinosaur museum in Vernal (very nice, well worth the price of admission) and then went to the quarry and visitor's center at Dinosaur National Monument. When we were there 41 years ago, there were paleontologists on scaffolding working away exposing the fossils on the side of the cliff. They stopped that work in the 90's so you don't get to see them working at this site any longer, but what they have uncovered is amazing.
After that, we headed east thinking we would stop in Craig or Steamboat or maybe Walden when we got tired, but we ended up driving all the way to Fort Collins. We got the oil changed in the Jeep on Friday morning and spent the afternoon with Tara and the boys. She made supper for us and Scott, Janie and the girls. Very pleasant evening!
Thigh bone of a Camarasaurus
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