Mornings are in the cool 60’s and every day enjoy going outside at dawn to do my reading and start the day. The sun rises over the mountains behind the RV and brilliantly lights up the red mountains in front of the RV. Fantastic setting to start the day. (by afternoon the temperature is over 100 and the brilliant red mountains are hazy with smoke)
Drove into downtown Moab to have lunch and visit the Museum of Moab. Good Museum depicting the history of Moab especially the Uranium boom of the 1950’s being a major supplier of Uranium from this local geology to the growing Atomic Energy industry. The woman in the Museum told us there was a couple out back in a trailer working on Dinosaur bones and we could go back and see what they were doing. The older couple (our age) were with the Paleontology Society of Moab and were doing the preliminary cleaning of a thigh bone from a 150 million year old Dinosaur. A hiker saw a portion of the bone sticking out of the ground and alerted Rangers who sent in a team to excavated it and pack it in plaster. It is then sent to the trailer where the couple takes off the plaster, does a preliminary cleaning of the bone and uses temporary glue to afix sections that were breaking off. The bone on the floor by my foot (use my size 16 foot to get an idea of size) had been cleaned and they were working on the next section of the thigh bone.
