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Dinosaur Natl Monument, UT – June 5, 2012

Got here this morning drove all but the last 30 miles yesterday. We are 475 miles north and East of Zion.

Here is the visitors center and metal dinosaur which is out front.
The dinosaur,

I took a few pictures at the dinosaur display building but we’ll have to wait until I got them off my camera.

Here’s a hot Hank, he threw his ball as far as he could and fell over.

Or maybe he is starting to melt.

Forgot to put in campsite pictures:

Zion Natl Park, UT – Saturday June 2, 2012

Spent most of the day at camp. Listen to Saturday morning radio shows Car Talk and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me ( reruns) and then the baseball game.
I spent most of the day learning to use new photo editing software, Adobe Photo Elements 10.  I have a long way to go but I can at least get a photo from my camera to this blog.

Today’s picture is of the trail to Angel’s Landing.

Zion Natl Park, Another Milestone – Friday June 1, 2012

May 31 is my birthday and this year I’m 62, one of those mathematical milestones.

Here are several picture documenting how I became a “Senior” today.

For my birthday Jean gave me $10.00.

I took this $10.00 to the Zion entrance gate and purchased my Senior Pass which is one time purchase for Life Time entry into all national parks or until October 30, 2028.
The pass also gives us a 50% discount on many of the National Park camp grounds.  Anyway now I am eligible to draw Social Security and I have a government document which says I’m a Senior (that’s with a capital “S”)

ZION FRIDAY 6/1/2012

It is going to be 101 today and it was 100 yesterday, VACATION.

Today’s picture(s) are from the West Rim trail above Angel’s Landing.  I took the 6:00 a.m. bus up the canyon and spent the morning on the trail above Angel’s Landing taking pictures and hoping the condors I saw last year would come back.    They didn’t.

Over the winter I bought myself a new toy, a Canon 60d and a couple of lens. The walk around lens is 18-200mm and the big toy is a 150-500mm.  The first picture is of Angel’s Landing at 150mm.

I think this lens is going to be a lot of fun and great to take pictures of birds and other animals.

Zion Natl Park, UT – Wednesday May 30, 2012

This was a hiking day.  Got up at 5:15 am to catch the 6:00 bus up the canyon. I think there were 8 people on the early bus.
Hiked up the West side trail, this goes UP the west canyon wall and past Angel’s Landing.  Stopped about half way to the West rim and spent a couple of hours wandering and around taking pictures, think l took 300. 
Picture of the day is our evening view, 8:00 pm and its 80°.

Traveling, NV – Sunday May 27, 2012

We left Richard & Vicki’s early but we didn’t get all that far for a while. We started the day at Walmart getting under the motor home putting oil in the hydraulic jacks. We developed a small leak that will be hard to reach.  May wait until we get home to fix it.

Finally got on the road at 8:30.  I decided it take highway 50 across Nv because we come out south of Salt Lake. We had a nice day and got to a rest stop in Beaver at 9:50 driving 579 miles. Martha (our phone GPS) says we have 112 miles to get to Zion.

Here’s today’s campsite pictures
This is a Utah state rest stop and Flying J truck stop in the same spot.