Day 2

Saturday began Day 2 for our adventure. We woke up early in Green River, Utah, had a quick breakfast and hit the road again. We thought about exploring Arches National Park but decided it would add about 4 hours to our journey so we by-passed that and headed for Colorado and Dinosaur National Park.

We're trying to stop at all of the "Welcome to NAME YOUR STATE" signs at each state border, sometimes with success, others.. not so much! But the Welcome to Colorado sign was huge and easy to spot before speeding past it. While we were standing there taking pictures, a car pulled over and a man came running towards us. Odd, we thought. Maybe he's a police officer and we shouldn't have pulled over on the side of the road? Nope, he ran up saying "I have to take a picture of all four of you. I came from Indiana just to take your picture." And the suspicious part of the Southern Californian in us thought "he's gonna steal our camera!". No, he was just a really nice man and it's been so nice to be around such friendly people... not that our friends at home aren't all friendly! By the way, the sign for Wyoming was stolen ( ___ Welcomes You) so we'll try on the way out!

So now we're in Colorado. We continued on, heading for Dinosaur National Monument. We hit a fork in the road. Hmmm, Right or left? Left. Proceed on, see a sign 'Dinosaur National Monument - 22 miles'. Yikes, a little farther than we thought but we've come this far. Wait! Another sign... 'Welcome to Utah'. UTAH??? Didn't we leave there a few hours ago? Oh well. Get to the Visitors Center and find out that the main museum is closed. Bummer! So we turn around, get back to that fork in the road and proceed straight. We find that 1/2 mile from there is an awesome Museum and video on... Dinosaur National Monument!! Ahhh!

We saw the most incredible and varied scenery in all these states. Some so barren and harsh yet beautiful and shortly afterwards, a thick forest filled with the most lovely wildflowers. We all have such an appreciation for the beauty of our country.

We went though Steamboat Springs (wow!) and pushed on to Laramie, Wyoming. We got there a few hours later than we had planned but that's the nice part of this trip ~ the freedom to stop and checkout things that catch our interest. Anyway, we finally got to Laramie and found the KOA we were staying at that night.

Hmmm, what can I say about the KOA in Laramie? Weird location. Between two mobile home parks, one that was called The Estates and the other one, well... let's just say that Britney Spears in her WT days might have lived there! (Dad, I know you won't understand what that means. I'll explain when we get home!) But we had a nice little cabin and we were only there for about 13 hours so it's all good. We had an awesome dinner at a restaurant called Latitude. Great steakhouse and brewery. Glad to get back to the cabin and sleep.