Dinosaur Valley

Mustang Sallie at Dino Model

I've been wanting to visit Dinosaur Valley for quite some time. I determined earlier in the week that I would make the trip out this weekend, and invited Mustang Sallie along. We hit the road this morning and made our way to Glen Rose and Dinosaur Valley SP.

Lone Star Quilter happened to place a LB here just this week. I was sure we'd be the first to find her treasure there. However, we opened up the logbook and saw that Gryzzled Gryphon had beat us to the punch on Friday. After stamping in, we wanted to go see if we could find some dinosaur tracks. We walked back over to the track site and discovered that we would have to make our way across the river on a rock "bridge". We gingerly stepped across from rock to rock and made our way over to the other side. After some searching, we finally found a couple of dinosaur tracks. We paid our respects to the dinosaurs who had come before us, then had to cross back over the bridge (with an audience watching us AND laughing at our slow progress) and get to the car so we could find some more letterboxes.

The "Bridge"

Next, we found HOWLING AT THE MOON, which was placed by DrooP. This is a bit of a historic letterbox since it was placed in the spring of 2004. We had a bit of trouble finding the right path, but we were successful and able to stamp in.

Finally, we found ST. PADDY'S TX HATCHLING and DINOSAUR TRACKS. Both of these were created around the dinosaur theme of the park. After stamping into these, we drove back around to the dinosaur models and admired their grandeur.

Lucy Locket at the Dino Model

Thanks to all who planted boxes there for us to find and thanks to Mustang Sallie for a fun day!