Monday, July 11, 2016

Such a Poor Start

Travel to Dinosaur National Monument was easy, though we took off much later than we wanted, resulting in us getting to our campsite much later than we liked (cleanup after dark is not so good).  But leaving Dinosaur?  Oh.My.Goodness.  We got out of camp around 8:30, so that was good.  Go Team Summers!  Google told us it was about eight hours to Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, so we knew we'd arrive around dinner time, but in theory it would be with plenty of time to set up camp and get dinner made and cleaned up before dark.  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!  Only not funny.  First, we had to stop to get breakfast, which cost us almost an hour.  How did that happen?  Then we needed some fuel, which took us a while to find at Park City, and as we were pulling out, the car told us we needed to get more DEF.  Seriously, as we were five minutes away from the station.  Couldn't have consolidated that one, could we?  So we headed to another Wal-Mart (breakfast was our first Wal-Mart visit of the day) to get the DEF.  And then we headed to McDonald's for some burgers to eat in the car.  That was another hour shot.  The directions Google gave us were not even to the campground I found, so we had to take off again with different directions.  Another hour or so shot.  All in all, we hit seven gas stations, two Wal-Marts, ate a ton of hard pretzels, went down eight miles of unpaved and ROUGH roads, and were six hours laters than originally anticipated.

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