Queen of the Pavement » absinthe http://queenofthepavement.com A stockpile of thoughts, stories and photos from helenadagmar. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:24:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Dinosaur Camp. http://queenofthepavement.com/2009/08/21/dinosaur-camp/ http://queenofthepavement.com/2009/08/21/dinosaur-camp/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:52:49 +0000 helenadagmar http://queenofthepavement.com/?p=984

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With Salt Lake checked off on our to-do list, we decide to switch directions and head back eastward for a short hiatus in Dinosaur National Monument. I mean, how often do you get the chance to hang out in Dinosaur? Who could say no to that?

Liz had lots of fun planned for us. Our first objective was camping in Echo Park, which was about an hour and a half of driving through the monument, the last half-hour covering only about a mile’s distance through ridiculous terrain. I’m glad the car survived.

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We drank wine and legitimate Ukrainian absinthe, read horoscopes, applied fake tattoos, ate lots of bread and hummus and avocados, cooked gourmet s’mores and listened to Liz serenade us on her guitar til the wee hours of the morning.

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We all awoke early the next morning to the sun glaring down on the canyon, forming a nice atmospheric hot-pocket enclosing our campsite. We did some morning exploring until it was too hot to continue, then hopped back in the Dinosaur-mobile and trekked back to home base on the other side of the monument.
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We did a bit of extra-sight seeing on the way, of course.
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See that little canyon in there? That’s where we woke up.
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