I like to write blog posts about our summer trips because it makes me sort through and edit my photos and this blog serves as my scrapbook. I wrote about the first day of September’s trip to Colorado here on September 27. The first half of Day 2 was here and the second half was here. That was October 12 and shortly after that I fell from the haystack and the rest is history. After weeks in a coma and months of recovery I’m still trying to return to normal. Part of that is finishing up my photo sorting from that last road trip. So this will be starting with Day 3, only six months later.

We left off spending the night at Dinosaur National Park. Here is the landscape when we woke up.

I followed a trail along the river watching the spectacular light on the cliffs.

Facing back towards the way I’d come I could see the campground where we had slept.

We saw more petroglyphs on the way out.

Dinosaur National Monument has two main entrances from the south. We had been at the “dinosaur” entrance. This one leads back into the canyonlands.

There was a short trail through the desert right at the small visitor’s center.

We chose the Harpers Corner Trailhead for a hike.

We weren’t far along the trail when we saw hundreds of dead bug exoskeletons. When we got home I looked these up and found that they were cicadas.

The Green River from the trail.

The Green River and the Yampa River meet here.

On the road leading out of the monument. We were headed for Colorado and Rocky Mountain National Park. I seemed to have lost a day of photos. They skip from September 17 to 19. I do remember that as we drove up out of Steamboat Springs the truck started to smell. We got over the west summit of Rabbit Ears Pass and found a place to camp for the night. The next day, which should be the 18th we got to Rocky Mountain National Park. More in the next post.