This is my “Really, you want to take my photo 20 minutes after I woke up and haven’t had a sip of coffee yet” face, a face I don’t share often. Considering this long-neglected day isn’t being posted until 2023, I’m guessing no one will ever see it. Yep, this is another of those “Why didn’t I finish posting these images” oversights that took nearly a decade to rectify. So it goes.

I guess this dinosaur at JB’s Restaurant draws the kids in; well, it worked on us, too, as the promise of seeing female dinosaurs frolicking in bikinis spoke loudly before our sleepy brains kicked in and remembered that dinosaurs are extinct.

Trying to add this post proves nearly futile as I’ve run aground from the sea of stories and memories that might have conveyed a little something else to share, or maybe I’m just in a hurry to get this written so I can move on to the next task in front of me.

Not only am I done after writing something or other about this shot of Monument Valley from here in southern Utah, but from this point, Caroline and I were only about 300 miles from home. I often wonder why I neglect to capture something or other of the scenery on the way home and can only attribute it to the need, the burning urge, to just get home after a trip where we feel that we’ve seen and done enough.