Jacqueline’s Jaunts

09-21-21 Tuesday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 21  Elderberry Family Farm  Payson, UT I forgot to mention a few things about Rangely, CO in my post last night. I found it to be an interesting place.  Rangely’s motto is “Way outside ordinary!”, which I think is weird. As you drive west out of town you start to notice oil derricks for miles. All the oil fields are owned by Chevron. Per Wikipedia today, Chevron drilled their first deep oil well in 1931. It currently has 406 producing wells. There is rock crawling parks, 9 hole golf course, Kennedy Reservoir, miles of BLM dirt raids , biking and hiking. The town is very run down but the local Mexican restaurant was excellent. There giant margarita is only $8.50.  The beautiful color brochure we received at our camp ground gives you a lot of information for outdoor activities as mentioned earlier. Other outdoor activities include bow and rifle hunting. The brochure is a little misleading but the town needs all the help it can get...

09-20-21 Monday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 20 Dinosaur National Monument Colorado and Utah Dinosaur Day!!!! Dinosaur National Monument has 2 visitor centers; one in Colorado and one in Utah We headed to the first visiter center on the Colorado side since we are camping in Colorado, Canyon Visitor Center. We headed out about 10:00AM. It was only about a 30 - 40 minute drive to the Canyon Visiter Center in the town of Dinosaur. Yes it's called Dinosaur. The Colorado side does not have any dinosaur fossils, only the Utah side. I got my NP Passport book stamped and bought the sticker for it. We perused through the center looking at all the displays and reading boards. Nice little museum.  From here we headed to the Quarry Visitor Center, north of Jensen. We watched the movie about the monument and again walked through the small displays about the area. We were happy to find out yesterday was the last day the NP used busses to take you to the Quarry Exhibit Hall. We were able to drive up to ...

09-19-21 Sunday Mt. Rushmore Trip Day 19 Buck 'N' Bull RV Park  Rangely, CO Today was a long drive. I think it was the longest one so far. We drove through the Rockies Mountains on  I-70 and what a challenge. Our coach did not like the huge mountains. According to Wikipedia (09-19-21) we went through the Eisenhower Tunnel at an elevation of  11,158 feet, the highest point of I-70. The Eisenhower tunnel is noted as the longest mountain tunnel and highest point on the Interstate Highway System. My photos did not turn out, very disappointing. I did add a photo of another tunnel but this is only one bore. The Eisenhower is 2 bores.  If we had more time there were so many places to stop in the Rockies: old towns, a mining tour, ski resort gondolas were working, look outs. Lots to see.  The drive was stressful especially during the downhill grades that went on forever. Actually kinda scary! We could only go up hill between 25 and 35 mph. Our RV did not climbing the Ro...