At morning coffee time there were 
2 mule deer on the edge of the meadow near the aspen trees. We watched them for 5 minutes or so before they drifted back into the tree line. This morning a little dog came walking along and wanted to play with Presley. Presley didn’t want to play with him and was surprised someone else was in “Presley’s Meadow” (N 40° 42.954′ W 109° 28.515′). We took him back to a motor home about a 1/4 mile away and found out his name was Mickey.
Then we dropped down out of the forest and into Vernal, Utah. We found that the visitor’s center was being rebuilt at Dinosaur National Monument and since we were running behind we opted to visit the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum. It is a great place to put together the history of the early earth.
We continued south through Helper and Price and stopped at Green River for fuel and some coffee at the Green River Roasting Company. They had moved from where they were last time but still have a good cup of coffee.
We doubled back to the cut-off towards the Henry Mountains and headed for Capital Reef National Park. 
As we approached there, Debbie recognized a spot we had been hunting for – a place where on her way to California as a young girl with her sister, brothers and dad, she had written her initials on a rock. The spot was there, complete with the swimming hole but thankfully no initials. I think mother nature took care of it over the years with a rock fracture or two.
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