We got up this morning and Bob told me he didn't have a good night at all. He had trouble breathing and just didn't feel "right". We're blaming it on the extremely high concentration of pollen and the high elevation we were at. At this point it was 8:30 and we had a decision to make since checkout was at ten. We decided to leave.
We put ourselves in high gear and got the rig road ready in no time. While Bob was doing some last minute things I went to fuel up the truck and to stop at the office to let them know we were leaving today. Once again, they refunded our money. I expressed my surprise at this and the lady behind the desk told me that a lot of people leave early because of breathing difficulties at this elevation. It is Xanterra's, a park concessionaire, policy to make the refunds which is very unusual.
On the way out we noticed this herd of buffalo. It seems as the week went on we saw larger and larger groups of them.
We had to stop along the way for buffalo and I noticed this natural spring that is bubbling up out of the large rock.
Again we were held up in traffic and we happen to stop next to this percolating hot spring.
We couldn't help but notice that traffic was a crawl but we couldn't see why. As we crept along we finally reached what was holding up traffic.
These three kept crisscrossing back and forth across the road so it took awhile before you could get around them.
We got behind this rig and couldn't figure out why he was traveling at a snail's pace. Soon it was apparent why he was crawling. This was walking down the middle of the road in front him. (Look on the shoulder of the road, click to enlarge)
A coyote!
Finally, the exit was in front of us and our trip to Yellowstone was over. This was one fantastic week! The beautiful scenery, the wildlife, the wonderful new friends we made, yep, a fantastic week! I am so very glad we made Yellowstone National Park one of stops in our journey.
As we drove through West Yellowstone, the town, I thought that this would be a great place to spend some time. It seemed that there was lots to do in the town including a playhouse, a bear exhibition, lots of shops and its fair share of tourist trap stores.
Even though we drove through Montana for a short while it isn't one we can add to our map because our rule is that we have to spend the night to make the map.
It wasn't long before we were out of Montana and into Idaho. Idaho, home to the Peacock and his Missus!
Some Idaho scenery.
The Grand Tetons from a distance.
We're going to be spending the next few days in the Snake River RV Park.
We have a very pretty site here and park is nicely kept.
Our view from our front door.
Now I've shown you what great sights we've seen this last week. Absolutely take your breath away scenery, things I'll probably never see again, but when we got here, at this park, and we turned on the computers and they worked I thought the most beautiful sight I've seen in a long time was this...............
Let the adventure continue.
1 comment:
Loved your writeups and the pictures were awesome. We heading to Yellowstone and can't wait to get there.
Joe
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