Hello friends, we’re back! We’re not back on the road or anything like that, but the blog is being updated again! We’re pretty well settled into our house in Omaha. Izzy is doing great in first grade, while Charlotte and I work from home. There’s a new puppy to keep us all on our toes, and sadly, the truck and RV are gone. The blog is now over a year out of date, but I am going to attempt to finish chronicling our RV adventures. I’m hoping to get the details documented before we forget them.

Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur

August 11 – August 20, 2021

When last we left you, we had just wrapped up our adventures in Yellowstone and the Grand Teton area. We hitched up and headed south, hauling the rig through Jackson, Wyoming headed for the tiny-not-even-really-a-town of Boulder.

After a relatively short but pretty drive, we arrived at Wind River View Campground. This is not a terribly impressive park, but it was in the direction we needed to head and was only $10/night using our RPI membership. We stayed a week which allowed us to settle in, catch up on laundry, receive a couple of packages, and take a bit of a break after several pretty full weeks of exploring.

We were looking forward to an easy week, so we didn’t exactly fill our schedule while we were there. And there’s not a ton to do even if we wanted to. The couple times we left the rig, we went north to Pinedale, which had a nice outdoor burger stand, a park, an expensive grocery store, and a brewery.

After our week was up, we headed south again, on our way to Vernal, Utah and Steinaker State Park.

It was another scenic drive. We got to drive over a dam, and we stopped for a nice picnic lunch on the way.

Steinaker State Park is pretty modern by state park standards and has some nice RV sites, but we still struggled a bit with parking in our curved pull-thru site. We had a nice gazebo though, and Izzy was able to play a bit with a kid in a neighboring RV.

We did a bit of exploring at the park, which is located on Steinaker Reservoir. I think it is a popular boating spot, but the water level was very low while we were there.

We only stayed for three nights, but Charlotte was able to go into town, get her hair cut, and shop at a Walmart for the first time in several weeks.

The highlight of our stay was visiting Dinosaur National Monument. We drove to the park’s Quarry Visitor Center located in Utah, but this national monument is pretty big and has another visitor center in Colorado.

As the name suggests, this visitor center is focused on a quarry where they found a large number and variety of dinosaur fossils. Way back in 1915 fossil hunters realized what an amazing site they had and preserved a hill with partially excavated fossils. A building was built around the hill, and now visitors can walk through and see fossilized dinosaur bones in situ.

It was very cool to see the fossils in place. The hill is large and there are a large number of species on display. There is also some cool technology to help visitors identify the bones they are looking at. There are also some displays to provide additional information.

After viewing the quarry, we hiked down the hill. On the way we spotted some petroglyphs and small animals.

That’s it for our time in Wyoming and northern Utah. See you down the road!