Money and Dinosaurs (Podcast S2:E5)

A new episode of the Road Tripping in America podcast is out now! Listen on your favorite podcast app or on roadtrippinginamerica.com.

Today: we take a deep dive into our budget vs. our actual spending for our first two months of road life, and then we take you on a tour of Dinosaur National Monument – the fossils, the canyons, the river, the…poems?

If you prefer reading your updates, we always post the full transcript on the podcast site – you can find it here, along with links to some of the things we mention in the episode. The full text of The Cataract of Lodore can be found here!

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Photos from this episode:

A rainy arrival in Irish Canyon

The road to the Deerlodge campground and boat launch

The Yampa

The Yampa below the boat launch

An old rancher cabin

The Yampa – the canyon I need to float through

Camping on BLM land

Sunset over Disappointment Draw

One of the rustic roads on the way to the visitor’s center to get updated road info

Flaming Gorge Reservoir, upstream from Dinosaur

Camping above the Jones Hole area

It was a fantastic campsite, even though the smoke rolled in that day

The Jones Hole trail

Rock art along the Jones Hole trail

The Ely Falls trail

Ely Falls

Back on the Jones Hole trail

Jones Creek

The Utah rock best-of collection

Near the junction of Jones Creek and the Green River

The Gates of Lodore

The Gates of Lodore from above, with booming thunder

The Brunch Truck – eat here if you’re in Rangeley!

Stock up in Vernal, UT

An arch near Vernal

An arch near Vernal