When we go down to Vernal, UT to get groceries (just down the road a piece . . . about 40 miles) we drive past the sign for Moonshine Arch. So we decided one day to leave a little earlier and stop to see Moonshine Arch.
The drive off the highway back to the parking lot made you feel like you could look around and possibly see John Wayne riding a horse back through the area.
The next pictures are from the arch itself. This was a beautiful rock formation.
Two days later, the forestry service needed to work on the water line so since the water was going to be off, we drove up into Wyoming to Fossil Butte National Monument. This was a lovely setting out in the middle of nowhere. Not much activity on the highway to get there.
When we arrived at the visitor center, they had a life size diorama of early archeologists looking for fossils.
The inside of the visitor center had over 300 fossils on display, but I could not get a good picture of them. When we left the visitor center, there was a 5.5 mile trail we could drive, but it came with warnings.
We did not have any issues with the trail, so when we got to the top, we stopped and had a picnic lunch.
After leaving Fossil Butte, we drove back through the town that has the first original J.C. Penney store, Kemmerer, WY
Inside, the store was decorated with original items it sold.
Something I found interesting was there was never any cash kept on the floor. Instead, via a cable pulley system, the checkout clerk would send the money up to the bookkeepers that were on a locked balcony and the bookkeepers would return the change. I have seen similar systems in older department stores but using vacuum tubes instead of cables.
Why was it called Moonshine Arch?
ReplyDeleteIt is called Moonshine Arch because of the curve of the rock resembles the shape of a quarter moon.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Glenn!
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