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Yes, one way or the other it will be a historic day today, Election Day in the USA, 2016. Either the "crooked" lifetime politician and first woman to be the president will win or the proven somewhat unstable "megalomaniac" and itching to start a war businessman will win. Personally, I voted for Clinton. A proven lifetime politician outweighs the alternative in my opinion. I heard a comment of with Clinton it will be "The Hunger Games" part one, with Trump it would be "The Hunger Games" part 2!! In our neck of the woods, early voting and absentee voting has been going on for over two months. We voted a couple of weeks ago. Above, in the lobby of the County Courthouse, four early voting stations had been set up for several weeks. 2 non the right and 2 on the left at the desk behind that sign. Below, I took a 'stealth' photo of some people voting. You never can tell in North Idaho what will set off people so I didn't want...

OK, let's move along to the next part of our adventure. In Vernal, Utah, we had our first real Dinosaur Trail stops. First stop was the Utah Field House of Natural History Museum and State Park  on that really warm, low 90s, afternoon in Vernal, Utah. Stacy, Sandy and I had first stopped at this museum way back in 1991 on our motorcycle trip, and wow!, the area sure has changed in the decades since! Very built up in the whole town and so much so I honestly thought it wasn't the same place we'd stopped, but it was. Above: a Stegosaurus, found in the general area, with a diorama painting on the wall behind showing several, as it is supposed they traveled in herds, as they might have looked when alive those millions of years before. Below: a Carnotaurus, these and Allosaurus carnivores were the dominate hunters in this region.  Above and below: there was an area where the kids can "dig" and find fossils   Above: if you walk throug...

So, I'll start with the pain as in a pain in both of our backs! My pain started with me doing something around October 12th or 13th, and I don't know what it was so I can try to make sure I won't do it again! But the afternoon of the 13th I was having pain on my left hip and by the next day the pain was down the front of my left thigh too and was extremely painful just lifting my left leg. Just standing hurt and trying to lift my leg to get into a vehicle was almost tears to my eyes painful on my left thigh. You know how something like this happens and you might start to think of a "worst case scenario", kinda like in July 2013 when out of blue I had my BPPV vertigo event happen and was thinking "is this my new normal?" by week 2. Then this also seemingly 'out of the blue' since I had no strain or injury to cause this pain I could recall, I started thinking I was suddenly one of those guys to deal with lower back and leg 'sciatica' pa...