Hanging out at Saint Mary, MT this morning. This campground has great facilities (pool, hot tub, showers, wireless internet, etc…) and it was super cheap. About to update the blog with lots of photos from Day 5 & Day 6. Then, later this afternoon, we’ll be driving through Glacier National Park on the famous “Going To The Sun” road. View… Read more →
Day 6
Leaving Yellowstone now. Such an amazing place. Heading up to Glacier National Park for nights. So many pics to post. Think there is wifi access where we are staying tonight… Read more →
Day 5
Super clear out and warm today at Yellowstone. Hiking Mt Washburn (10,243′) later this morning, and hoping to swim in the “boiling river” (river with hot springs in it) this afternoon. Cell reception is nill, and we’re camping inside the park so not sure how many pics we’ll be able to post today. Read more →
Inside Yellowstone
Late afternoon at Castle Geyser The Wildlife Driving to Old Faithful Hiking Bunson Peak (8,564′) Old Faithful at sunset View of Old Faithful from inside the lodge Our dinner at the lodge Read more →
Day 4
As if we even need to say where we are… Read more →
The calm after the storm…
We hit a hail storm leaving Deadwood and at the clearing made the ride into Wyoming seem somewhat dreamlike… Read more →
Deadwood…the resting place of Wild Bill Hickok
Mt Rushmore/Black Hills
GRASSHOPPERS!
Driving out of the Badlands on Sage Creek Road there were fields of grasshoppers everywhere…..sounding like rocks hitting the car. Read more →
Badlands National Park
Containing the world’s richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets, and swift fox roam one of the largest, protected mixed-grass prairies in the United States. Read more →