Woke up to 48 degree weather. It had rained again overnight. We left around 9:30 and were headed to West yellowstone, montanta. I knew we were going through the Tetons to get up there, ut was quite surprised that we had to go through Yellowstone National Park.
So we're going through the Tetons, and what do we see? A street cleaner! Then we get caught in a traffic jam! In the Grand Tetons! It turns out that they were repaving the road. The Tetons were beautiful enough for me to say that of all the mountains we have seen so far, they have been the grandest. The tallest were snow capped which ran a chill through my body.
Yellowstone was having a free day, which they apparently do often. Yellowstone was mainly forest with streams, hot springs, high passes with breath taking views, and wildlife.
We passed the Continental Divide twice, once at 8081 feet and once at 8300 feet. We worked our way through traffic (due to construction and to folk stopping to look at wildlife). We got to Old Faithful around 12:30. We started to walk towards the geyser, and a huge black cloud hovered over us. Nick decided we should wait it out, so we went back to the RV and made lunch. Have I mentioned yet how wonderful it is to have your house with you at all times? The clouds passed, and we walked out to the geyser at 1:20 to find out he would be going off at 1:41. How in the world can they predict activity to the minute? Lo and behold.....it went off at 1:41! He gushed to about 150 feet. What an amazing sight!
We continued our drive and pulled over to look at the hot springs called Biscuit Basin. We thought the torment had passed. We got out of the car, started walking up the ramp, and got caught in hail and rain. It was cold, but the heat from the springs felt so good. It was very foggy so we went back to the car. It's probably at this point that I should point put the wisdom bestowed upon me by my daughter-in-law, Priscila. She knew I was quite nervous before we left for our journey. She wrote the most beautiful note to me telling me to enjoy the unexpected rainstorms...and I did!
During our journey, we saw bison, elk and moose cows.
We got the West Yellowstone around 4:30. The campground, Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park, is the nicest we've seen so far. It had manicured lawns, pine and birch trees, and concrete patios.
We met a family from pennsylvania and it turns out they will be at two other spots along our trip.
It started raining again and continued to rain throughout the night.
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