We rise early and pack, have breakfast, and board the coach at 7.30. Fine weather again as we speed to locality 7, Dinosaur Valley State Park. Some rather poor dinosaur tracks are visible here en the stream bed.
Bob Perkins says better ones are to be seen on local farms and the farmers print guides describing them as mixed dinosaur, bobcat and human prints!
In this park a Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus in plastic full-size models stand in a small enclosure!
On to locality 8 by Lake Granbury, where Pete Rose and I discuss sections each in our own terms and learn a lot from each other.
He comes up to me and says “I’m Pete Rose and I want to talk to you. You are the only person here who has shown logical, connected thought about these tracefossils and I want you to explain them to me”!
He, Julia and John Harper and I talk a lot through the day.
Stop 9 on a dry ranchland (no smoking!) and have our pack lunch and talk to Pete and Julia and a student about hardgrounds.
The rest of the stops provide me with some bored oysters (no. 11), photo of Chondrites, and numerous Kingena. We find a few scorpions at 9 and fine fruiting Opuntia in several places.
We shed people after the last stop in Fort Worth and then drive back to Dallas, talking to a lot of people on the way. Shed 34 of us at Love Field airport (I photo building where Kennedy was shot, without my knowing it!!).
Say goodbye to Hanor, Rose and others.
We then drive to the Ramada Inn, where the remaining 10 of us book in: Bob and I share.
I ring Win Hall and go to supper in the restaurant. We are tired and sit in the luxurious chairs happily relaxed. The other geologists staying here arrive later at other tables.
Two oil geologists (City Oil or something) invites us to the nightclub for beers afterwards and we shout and bawl at each other over the stultifying noise of an electric guitar and singer.
Gerald Friedmann and Julia join us later.
Turned out of the bar at 12, but continue talking about tracefossils in the hall until 12.30.
