I’ve been looking forward to having it rain while on the road for quite awhile and so far all I’ve gotten are a few drops in the afternoon. Tonight is a bit better. Not a proper rain yet, but a steady sprinkle that shows some promise. I only wish that I were spending the night at a campground or some place with more romance where I could curl up under my covers and listen to the pattering on the roof. Instead I’ll be in a Walmart parking lot for the night in a small town in Utah. I have been putting off getting my oil changed and it can wait no longer since this is the last town of any size I’ll be going through for at least another hundred miles and the oil light’s been on for the last 50 miles into town. Unfortunately I arrived here Saturday night and all the shops are closed on Sunday.

ahh well. It’s not as if I had any particlar plans for today beyond reading and reorganizing the car anyway. I even began sorting through some of the hundreds of pictures I’ve taken in the last week. Though I’m typing this on my phone so posting those will have to wait.

I spent the last two days at Dinosaur National Monument. Two days was enough for now but I already want to go back sometime and do more exploring on the Green River. Preferably sometime when the mosquitos aren’t so bad. I got eaten alive by them, a red ant and something else I never sawM but must have been a spider because it left a bite mark 3 or 4 times the size of a mosquito’s that still itches today.

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Got my x-rays done this morning.  The wrist has been declared to be a sprain and not a break.  So now I have a (much smaller) brace and am another couple hundred dollars poorer.  I also bought a new helmet today (exactly the same as last time) so at least I’m done spending money on that accident.

Spent the day in Boulder, Colorado which is a very nice town.  Thanks Adam for the suggestion of Big City Burritos.  I went there for lunch and then since I stopped later in the same shopping center for my helmet went there again for dinner to try the potato burrito.  Very tasty.  I’m still quite attached to the rice at Chipotle, but I’d say that everything else at Big City was at least as good or better.

In between lunch and dinner at Big City Burritos I went to the Redstone Meadery and had a nice little tour and tasting.  They said there were about 100 companies in the US making mead.  I may have to set aside an hour or so sometime to do a bit of internet searching and put some of the others on my map of places to go while touring around the country.

Sitting at the ugent care facility waiting for the doctor to see me took up most of the rest of the day so I still have one or two things I want to see in Boulder before heading out to Rocky Mountain National Park.

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It’s been a week now and I’m feeling much better.  Still sore on the knees and elbow (road rash that I keep damaging again by doing things like walking or bending my elbow), but the other bits of road rash and bruises are healing up.  Tomorrow I’ll head to a hospital for another set of x-rays and hopefully it’ll turn out my wrist isn’t broken and I can take off this cast.  We’ll see.  It’s still sore, but I’m hoping that’s just bruising and not something broken.

If nothing else at least it was a good excuse to just sit around and read.  I’ve been working through a couple of books on American history, most notably one called “The River of Doubt: Theodore Rosevelt’s Darkest Journey”. (Did you know he hated to be called Teddy?)  It’s about some exploring in South America that he did after being defeated for a third term as president.  Before reading this I also read a quick biography of him called a “Lion in the White House”.  I didn’t realize how little I knew about him before.  I’d highly recommend River of Doubt.  I didn’t intend to read the whole thing yesterday but stayed up until 2:00am to finish it (which I think sort of bothered the security guard since I was just sitting in the front seat of my car reading from 8pm till 2am).

Did some other sightseeing while I was in Denver as well.  Toured the state capitol, the US Mint, and the National Renewable Energy Labs (yes, I am a nerd).  Made a pilgrimage to the first Chipotle restaurant.  I don’t like to go to chain restaurants while I’m traveling, but Chipotle is one of the few I’ll make an exception for so of course I had to visit the original.

The prius has been preforming admirably though will take some rearranging.  I haven’t been moving easily enough this last week to take care of that.  I also need to find a better set up for the front seat.  Right now I have large drawer underneath the board that extends from the bed in the bad.  Keeps everything out of the way, but the problem is the drawer is too damn heavy.  Not sure yet what will put there instead.  May move the drawer to sit on top of the board since I can bolt it down there and right now everything I put there ends up sliding down into a pile on the floor.

Next Boulder and Rocky Mountain National Park.

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