Nice to know that Sad Monkey is just a mile or so from the park entrance.

This is truly an amazing Texas treasure!

Again, hard to capture the sweeping views with a camera, but wow.

These rock formations are called “Spanish Skirts.”

Horsehair pottery, which features actual horsehair thrown on the potter’s clay during formation, then baked in and sanded off at the finish.

Interesting display found in the Palo Duro Museum, which actually was pretty informative and well done.

Love these blooming cacti!

Uh-oh. We had to back up and find a place to turn around, a scary ordeal for sure, but Jim’s a master!

We finally got to our parking space and were set up by 3 pm.

This looks like leather, but is only sun-dried mud after a rain.

Palo Duro’s Big Cave – we weren’t wearing the right shoes to hike all the way up to it, but how beautiful in the setting sun! (Mark and Michelle have some cool photos of this from when they visited several years ago.)

A desert still life.

There she is! Yes, she’s a happy lady.

Palo Duro’s nightly theatrical performance, showy and kinda cheesy – we stayed for another 15 minutes and quietly slipped out.

Sunset

We found the propane problem!! Somehow before we left home, two of the stove burners were turned to “lite” so propane was definitely leaking slowly into the trailer…we felt completely foolish to not have noticed that sooner, but it was an easy fix and now we have propane when we need it, primarily to keep the refrigerator/freezer cold during our travel days.

Sunrise!

View from our camp site, looking west as the sun rises in the east.

We made it all the way up to the Big Cave!

This is actually the river that carved the canyon! Not much to it right now, but we were warned again and again about flash floods.