I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 724.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about river rafting and fossil hunting, dinosaurs, pictographs,

and petroglyphs. as we go to Dinosaur National Park and Rocky Mountain

National Park in northwestern Colorado.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about a

couple wonderful national parks. I'd like to welcome the show Sam and Nina Oppenheim.

Sam you may remember from being on the show way back.

You could find Sam's photography at Sam Oppenheim.

com. Sam and Nina, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having us on, Chris.

So great to be here.

And I say Sam hasn't been on the show in a while.

We figure it's something like 10 years, a marriage and two kids later that Sam is back, but he was on in the early years talking about Bali and Northern India and Laos. and

Louse, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly.

But you are talking something a little more domestic this time.

What are we talking about today?

So mostly the national parks in northern Colorado.

I figured because of COVID, we did a little domestic travel and there's some amazing sites

up there.

Dinosaur National Monument doesn't get enough attention and Rocky Mountain National Park is among a lot of people's favorites.

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