There and Back Again Pt. 1

A journey through time past

We left Derby, Ks on Wednesday night around 8:30pm. We drove through the night and stopped the next day in Ogden, Ut at the Dinosaur Museum. At this point in the trip we were half way to the redwood forest in California.

We stopped for a picnic and to explore the park. It was a wonderful time with the family of walking laughing and playing together. I realized that we don’t do this enough!! We explored the park and the dinosaurs they had placed through out it and Libby and Ivan were quick to point out the ones that they liked.

It was a nice break from riding in the van for 14 hours. We played there for about 3 hours and then decided it was time to continue our mission. The kids had adequately ran and played and the parents had stretched out and felt that they could travel for another 14 hours. We had survived the dinosaur park and were ready to move on in our trip.

Our trip took us next to an undiscovered part of our nation (for us). Usually at Ogden we would have headed north to Idaho and then west to Oregon, but not this time. The GPS tracking and guidance on my phone came in handy as we charted this new course in an un adventured land. We continued west towards Nevada and then to California, where we would camp for two nights and explore the giant trees…