Sharing My Story

(Journal entry May 20, 2006)
This morning I got up a little before 5 AM and
got ready to leave and started out of Green Valley
by about 6 AM. Stopped in Phoenix and got gas.
Then I stopped in Flagstaff and got gas and ate
a bite of lunch about 11 AM. Then drove up to
Tuba City (on US Highway 160) and stopped
at a dinosaur trackway (footprint) site and
was given a paid guided tour by an American
Indian young woman named Jennifer and
her 1 1/2 year old son Eli. It is a very extensive
site covering several acres on Hopi Indian
Reservation lands. The tracks are fully exposed
to erosion, the elements and human traffic.
Many of the tracks are very worn. Jennifer
mentioned that further up the road in a place
called the “Paper Route” there are human
footprints mixed among the dinosaur tracks.
I didn’t have time to check that site out,
but this is probably where Jeremy Auldeney,
Paul O. Rosnau, Edwin Back, and Norman Davis
did their two-part CRSQ (September 1997,
December 1997) Report. The tracks looked
like small to medium sized theropod (3 toed)
and there were several trails of 3 or 4 prints
(left-right stride). This is worth checking out
again. I traveled to Blanding, Utah, but was
too late to get to the Dinosaur Museum (I was
still on Arizona time). I traveled on to
Monticello and stayed at a reserved motel
room and ate at a local Subway.