If you like dust, heat and flies then this is the place for you...

Yesterday, Garn and I along with Misty and Dan and the boys took our motor homes down to Antelope Springs (no antelope and absolutely no water) We did see what used to be Sevier Lake, dried up. It is about 1 hour on a dusty rutted dirt road south of Hinkley, Utah which is about 31/2 hrs from Murray somewhere past Delta out in the middle of nowhere. I thought my back would never recover from the josteling and banging getting there. All to find little fossils on pieces of slate formed 1000's and 1000's of years ago. I had no idea it would take so long, be so dirty and have so many flies! They covered the doors of our motor homes and got inside. Misty's boys had a great time finding these pretty amazing fossils imbedded in the slate. Dan and Garn were in their element too. This is definitely a guy thing. If it hadn't been for Dan and Misty's great dutch oven meals this gal would have rebelled! (Of course I couldn't just leave the barren wasteland; no people or even cell phone bars for miles!) The boys would come back dirty and dusty and thrilled with their finds. I must admit those trilobites were pretty amazing and after Misty and I hiked up to the top of a mountain and could see for miles and look down at our little motor homes and find the kids spread out all over like ants, it had a rugged beauty. We found some pretty amazing rocks on the way down and saw a lizard or two. In the end I was kind of glad I went,( if only to see all the guys' eyes light up at the wonderful finds). But I'm never going again!! Things bounced around the motorhome so much that pipe fittings rattled loose and leaked, food in the fridge spilled and bounced all over and the layers of dirt on the outside of the motorhomes was a sight to see. Even with the windows closed the dust and flies got in! Yeah, this would make a great scout overnighter. I bet you could get a load of merit badges going there! Now that I'm home and showered, I feel much better about the whole 24 + hour ordeal. (But I'm still never going back!)