A Teton Haiku

The great Grand Tetons.
Barely open, no camping.
A cold, snowy hike.

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Jackson

We finally left our picture-perfect free campsite in Montana, and drove a few minutes to Idaho. We made a quick stop to send an email. While Bode and I were in a coffee/embroidery/florist store Jason stayed at the bus to look at the map. He was approached by a guy who said he had 3 read more

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Still Faithful. Again.

Still in Yellowstone, and time to travel south to see Old Faithful again. Obviously, we had to recreate one of our favorite photos of the trip – Jason and I with our heads cut off. A new family tradition has been born. We had planned to camp in Yellowstone, but it seemed a little uninviting. read more

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More Yellowstone

We spent a great evening watching the elk and their babies from our campsite. The next morning we decided we needed another night at this site, but first we needed to clean up a bit. We drove just outside the park, to Montana, to take care of business. We were pleasantly surprised with a one-stop read more

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Yellowstone

We entered Yellowstone from the east on the first day of the season. First stop was a mostly-frozen lake. Bode really didn’t want to get dressed that day. Sometimes, it’s nice to be able to say okay, no problem. Pajamas it is. The animals weren’t aware that the park was opening today, and they seemed read more

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Guns and Fertiliy in Cody, WY

The day before the Yellowstone entrance was to open, we moved farther down the road past Cody to the Elk Fork campground on National Forest Service land. First, we made a quick stop in Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. We do try to sneak in something deliberately educational for Bode every read more

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Still in Wyoming

We’d pretty much run through the list of things to do in Thermopolis, so an ‘educational’ tour of a distillery for Bode was one of the last things left. Just my luck it was a whiskey distillery.   We drove out of town about 15 minutes, and were a world away. Wyoming’s only distillery, aptly read more

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Petroglyphs

After driving for a super long time we pulled off into a place with petroglyphs. It was deserted (more of a summer place) but the hike was cool. There were lots of cool petroglyphs, my favorite was the pregnancy one (a petroglyph of a person with a hollow stomach and a smaller person in the read more

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Thermopolis Dinosaur Museum

The dinosaur museum was basically a big warehouse. It was cool though, there were models made out of real bones! It started with the big bang, moved on to the first life forms, then got to dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were the main part. The museum had a life-size model of a brachiosaurus made out of real read more

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Lander

We had to get away from the noisy freeway and took the scenic route north. There’s not a lot going on between Rawlins and Lander but sky and clouds. When we reached Lander on a wet and cold Sunday evening, we thought the town would mostly be shut down. But, then we saw the neck of a read more

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Old Skool Putt Putt

It’s surprising how fun an out-of-date mini-golf course in a random highway town can be. There didn’t seem to be any specific theme to this one. Some African animals, a castle and a tortoise that inspired my favorite quote from Bode. While reaching underneath it to get his golf ball from the hole, he smiled read more

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RV World

On our way out of Larami we were signaled over by one of the VW drivers in town (out of exactly five) and chatted for a while about buses and road-tripin’. As always, VW bus people are good people. We drove a whole 100 miles today. All the way to Rawlins, WY. We sprang for the read more

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Vedauwoo and Laramie

After another full day of driving around Ft. Collins and Loveland running errands, we finally crossed the border into Wyoming. We took a little shortcut from Tie Siding over to the Vedauwoo campground. Dirt roads and a sideways snowstorm just to Wyoming-it-up a little. The campground turned out to be an old bomb range that read more

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