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The rest of the supporting cast. More than 100 million years before the Entrada Sandstone (that I introduced at the end of the previous post) formed as part of a massive desert, this area was a foreland marine basin that …

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While today is technically the antepenultimate day of the trip it is, for all practical purposes, the penultimate day because Monday is almost entirely devoted to traveling home. I’ll have to drive several hours to reach my first and principal …

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What’s a Todd trip without at least one stop at a cemetery? Knowing that I couldn’t get to the Bonneville Salt Flats (a remnant of Lake Bonneville) where Con Air, Independence Day, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End …