St. George dinosaur tracks

So this was our first morning of our vacation to experience how long it takes to get the three kids organized and fed at a motel. Clearly there won’t be any early morning departures on this trip. After leaving Barstow we motored right on through downtown Las Vegas, stopping for lunch at a Chipotle Grill in North Las Vegas. Despite it being a bit breezy, we ate outside and watched the military fighter jets fly over after taking off from Nellis AFB.

A couple of hours later we arrived in St. George and headed for the Dinotrax museum. This museum is built right over the discovery site of hundreds (thousands?) of tracks preserved in sandstone. The site is still being excavated, and new discoveries are being made. We stayed until nearly closing time (we’d forgotten about the different time zone and lost an hour).

After picking up some lunch making foodstuff, we had dinner at the Cracker Barrel and then checked in to the Comfort Inn Zion in Hurricane, a few miles outside of St. George. It was windy—the motel room window was just a little leaky and it howled.

Links
—Dinosaur track museum photo gallery