We took another road trip in November and it passed us through a couple of Texas State Parks, including Enchanted Rock and Dinosaur Valley. We'd been wanting to check both of them out for a while, so while we were headed to Missouri, we thought we'd take the time to finally do it. Enchanted Rock is a massive dome of rock pushed out of the Earth by some sort of volcanic activity. It was a pretty decent hike to the top of it, but not too difficult, and this was probably the perfect time of year to do it. We went to the summit and braved the winds, then hiked down the rocky canyon and around the base of the dome. The following day, we stopped in Glen Rose at Dinosaur Valley to check out the dinosaur tracks preserved in the icy waters of the river that flowed through. Apparently, some massive long-necked dinosaurs migrated through the area followed by some smaller raptor-like predators and left footprints in the ground that were quickly filled in and petrified (in ways I can't explain). Either way, we saw footprints the ranger said were dinosaur footprints. It was cool. And by cool, I mean COLD. I had to wade barefoot through the water carrying Paul on my back to see some of them, and the water was a little frigid. Good times.
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