[Christina] Day 4: Driving Through Geologic Time

Leaving Dinosaur National Park, we took 191, which surely must be one of the best roads for geology of all time.  Signs labeled each rock formation and gave a brief description.  This was brilliant.  It was awesome.  There was even a Humbug Formation. [Elizabeth sidebar: I think there should be a program for doing this on all major US roads. Seriously, it's an awesome educational opportunity with so little effort, and really creative. As a kid on road trips, this would have been so cool - collect all the rock formation signs!]

Didn't manage to get a photo of the signs, but enjoy Flaming Gorge!

We skirted Flaming Gorge, then cut through Wyoming.  It was a stark difference from Utah, with its mountains and gorges.  Wyoming had beautiful rolling hills with fields and grasslands, exactly the way we'd we'd always imagined it. [Elizabeth sidebar - basically, even though its a random straight line on a map, the landscapes between Utah and Wyoming here are so completely different, and it is a very sudden shift. It was really weird and quite stereotypical...]

When we re-entered Utah, we were in for more sandstone with dune cross-bedding.

I wanted to see the Great Salt Lake.  We didn't know where to go to see the lake, and so we got lost in the outer suburbs of Ogden trying to find it by driving in its general direction.

Hillbilly Motors

We decided it would be a good idea to stop for real food (having been powered by nutella and apples and bread products the past four days) in Ogden and ask for directions to the Great Salt Lake.

Real food!  Horray!