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A Historic Day

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...

Dinosaur Trail Adventure - Part 2

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...