One of the perks of homeschooling is that we get to focus on ideas and themes longer than most schools get time for. We are part of a little homeschool group that meets every Thursday for play time, field trips, parties, etc. We only get to go about every other week or two times a month because of the distance. But if there is going to be a big outing we try our best to go. Toward the end of October and into November the little group was going to meet a BLM paleontologist at a dinosaur track site. We had recently been studying dinosaurs so it was perfect.
Also, the track site is almost directly north of the ranch by 35 miles of dirt road. I took the dirt road that day, and it was an adventure. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes, but it was well worth it. I was the only truck/car for the whole way. The road goes up right next to the mountains and back down. Some parts of the “road” is just a small two track path that you follow, other parts are well maintained.
Enhanced picture. Three toes pointing to the left.
Original picture. Really hard to see without a guide.
More on the Red Gulch Road and dinosaur track site:
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Worland/rec/redgulch.html
http://scenicbyways.info/byway/11243.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gulch_Dinosaur_Tracksite
Then a little later on, we were able to travel down to Thermopolis to walk through the dinosaur museum. Ruby is starting to get a good understanding about dinosaurs because of our adventures.
I didn’t bring my big camera because the temps that day were only in the single digits and we had snow. So, I didn’t want it to get wet.
(about the size of the dinosaur that made the tracks at the track site we went to in the above pictures)
