This is My World/Dinosaur Museum

Our next adventure was stopping at the Dinosaur Museum
The Dinosaur Museum is in the city of Blanding, Utah, which is located in beautiful San Juan County. The vacation spots of Moab City and Arches National Park are to the north, and historic Bluff and Monument Valley are to the south. Fresh air, spectacular scenery, and rich cultural experiences await the traveler to this region.

I won't bore you too much with photos of dinosaurs as some may not be interested and if you are i am sure you have seen a few. But did want to show a few things of interest.

Ok so my question has always been, how did they come up with those names that one can not pronounce? you know there was no writting back in those days so why are they named such long names?

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Mellow Yellow Monday/Natural Bridges Monument

Well there are several Bridges. But the hiker i am not, specially when it comes to high places i was too chicken to find them. This one is one you could see from the observation deck so that is why your getting a photo of it.

Owachomo Bridge

Owachomo is the smallest and thinnest of the three natural bridges here and is commonly thought to be the oldest. We may never know for certain, as each of the bridges certainly have eroded at different rates. Regardless of its relative age, it is certainly the most fragile and elegant of the three spans, and an awe inspiring feature of erosion.

History

Owachomo means "rock mound" in Hopi and is named after the rock formation on top of the east end of the bridge. Before William Douglas gave it this name in 1908, it was called "Edwin" or "Little" bridge. Prior to that, it was referred to as "Congressman" by miner and explorer Cass Hite.

Early in the Monument's development, a dirt road led to Owachomo bridge from the south. It ended at the campground and ranger station directly southwest of the bridge. There were no other roads, and visitors seeking the other two bridges hiked or rode horses through the rugged canyons, often guided by the first "custodian" of the National Monument, Ezekial "Zeke" Johnson. Today, remnants of "Zeke's trail", now on the National Register of Historic Places, can still be seen just across the canyon below Owachomo.

And here is the Bridge i took

And here is my contribution to Yellow Mellow Monday.A lonely flower

And some yellowing on the tree in the distance

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Sky Watch Friday/Parking not always the best

Leaving the Salt Flats. The sky was very clear, it was starting to get late so we decided that we better start looking for a place to camp for the night..We thought we saw a sign for RV parking. Well if you have ever been in a rv and towing a car you know that you can't back up if you screw up, well we found ourselves in that predicament, so this is the church that we tried to turn around in but didn't have enough room, so you have to unhook the car, Of course you all have to know i told hubby not to pull in there, and even when he did i told him he can drive around in the back of the church, but oh no he wouldn't listen, well you know these men they always know more than we do......

So by the time we got unhitched and hooked back up again we left there in hopes of finding a out of the way parking area, but that was too be another hour or so away, and when we did find it we thought it was a great spot, not too far off the road which was nice as it was a two lane road, figuring not too much traffic at night,but about an hour after we got all settled in, the train comes by, and every hour or so after that all night long we would wake back up to the sounds of the train and the whistle. So much for a good nights sleep and cheap parking.....But then i have to say we have also paid for RV Parks and the darn train is right there as well. Over the yrs we always try to avoid those places, but sometimes its hard to do

So here is a close up of the graffiti that was on the tall grain stack.....

Leaving there i took many photos of the country side but this one i wanted to share, look at those fences that are up there, now tell me who in the world wants to spend that kind of money to put a fence up... Do you also see those huge rocks sort of scattered around? makes me wonder were they came from since the rock hill looks pretty smooth.

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Watery Wednesday/Utah

One of the things we didn't remember about going to Utah was the high elevations that we had to go up and down, don't remember it being so steep and windy. This poor trucker was broke down, not a good thing on a curvy and windy road. I guess when we came to Utah before we took a different route and we didn't have a tow vehicle. Could really feel it with a tow behind us. But the motor home did great.

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Mellow Yellow Monday/Elko Nevada

Day 3 Elko Nevada
Not much to see on the way to Elko but did find these tunnels interesting.
I was surprised how this one turned out going through it, I like it.

I found this sort of weird as i think it was a barn at one time and i think they turned it into a house. Doesn't the background of the land look stark?

I liked the sign of this Casino with that huge bear.

Today's Flower/Diamond Crater

It always amazes me when i see Lava Formations, and you see beautiful flowers like these. I don't know what they are called but they are pretty.Makes you wonder what these plants live on as there is not much dirt or water.

You can see a lot of sage brush in the canyons of this lava flow

Beautiful yellow flowers again i have no idea what they are called but seem to do very well in those craters.

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Camera Critters is posted below this.

Sky Watch Friday

Day 2 of our trip to Utah

Helicopter in the distance he was carrying the water for the fire

Here is Alice on the Dashboard of the motor home, she is now a good RV traveler, i think she is thinking about those clouds in the sky.

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Sky Watch Friday/I'm back

Well it has been a long time since i have participated in Sky Watch Friday and have missed doing so. I hope to be back in the blogging world.
We are also back from our month long vacation to Utah so thought i would start out with this photo i took our first night on the road. This was taken at the Round Barn out towards Burns Or. More to come on that.
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