Monday, July 13, 2009

Travel Into Yellowstone - Revised

Made it to yellowstone.

Lots of road work is the theme for the day. The grand Tetons were beautiful. We are by yellowstone lake with gorgeous snow capped mountains.


We headed out this morning about 9. We should only have about 5 hours driving. The first couple went really well. Then we entered into the Grand Teton National Park. There were lots of winding up and down roads. To top that off we had lots of road construction. You would wait for about 15 minutes for the pilot car to bring the traffic from the North and then turn around and lead you into the one lane dirt roads that were on the side of the mountain. It made for some very interesting travel.

We entered into Yellowstone National Park and had some of the same road work. But only for a short drive.

We pulled over at a beautiful waterfall. Jake and Jenni got out with me and we took some pictures.




Our next stop was along the southern shore of Yellowstone lake. This was the last spot we had cell phone service for almost two weeks. We followed the lower loop around the lake up to Fishing Bridge. There are several little villages in YNP (Yellowstone National Park) situated along the two loops. The loops form a figure 8 we were on the bottom loop. We headed into the campground and checked in. They directed us to our site. The part I thought was funny was you have to pay extra for the showers!!! As I said before we always bathe in the coach. I just had never seen that before.

We headed into the campground and I was amazed! The sites are packed in this place. This is the only campground in the park with full hookups (electricity, water, & sewer). You back into your site. Directly behind you is the car of the camper that is backed in right beside the back of your trailer. You have about a 6 x 6 little space to put up chairs etc. There was not an open space in the whole campground. It was a tight space but you aren't at your trailer much while you are here and we do like our electricity and water!


As soon as we were set up we jumped in the Van and took off North on the Grand Loop. The first spot we came across was the Yellowstone River. There was a nice little wooden deck trail down to the water with some gorgeous rapids. The kids felt the water and said it was really cold.




Our next stop was some of the Geysers and steam pots. The kids really thought these were interesting.






We drove on the the Grand Canyon at Yellowstone. Talk about a beautiful view. The wind was blowing pretty hard but boy was it gorgeous.

We drove into another spot and walked down to view the Upper Falls. The kids wanted to hike down but I had my flip flops on and I think I would have died coming back up.





We then made it to the next village called Canyon. They had some cute shops and a restaurant. We looked around for a while then headed back down to Fishing Bridge. We saw some Bison along the way which the kids thought was really cool.





We went into the little store where we ate at a little diner type thing. It was pretty good.

We went back to the trailer and all fell into bed from exhaustion. It is so beautiful here. There really isn't a way to describe it. Everywhere you look is another beautiful view.

2 comments:

TravelinGranny said...

Sure wish I was there! Can't wait for pictures.

LOVE MOM

Ahmeadabob said...

I wish travelin granny was there too. WOW! You sure have BEAUTIFUL kids! I miss them a lot.

At least I have Moscanna, (means smile in Hindi). She's the 2 year old daughter of the maid Arti. Her mother I think senses that I miss the grandkids because she lets me fix breakfast for Moscanna almost every day. Now she comes everyday and watches cartoons, (they don't have a TV), and this morning she is eating an apple and two biscuits.

She is such a good little girl and is always very quiet but it's not the same. She is not allowed to touch me because she is from a lower caste, (look that word up) and her parents have taught her that she is not allowed to people with lighter skin than her. So no hugs for me. She is not even supposed to "look" at white people in the eye but at least I do get a smile every morning when she first comes in.

Sure makes me miss Jessi, Jake,josh, jenni, abby, brady, cade :-(

Have fun in yellerston it is a magical place!