-Miranda
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We ended up staying in the parking lot of the bar Sara works at since there was a large dirt area of the lot. This afternoon, we went out to lunch with Sara and her roommate. We then headed out of town and have basically been driving ever since. We are now sitting just south of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, parked in a National Grassland which is also an oil field. We'll be back on the road tomorrow morning.
I'll post the Yellowstone photos here.
-Miranda
Old Faithful erupting.
An old geyser.
One of many very neat colored, hot springs. This one is one of the hottest I believe.
Joe's favorite area in the park. He likes his rocks. ;) This very short little road went through the rocks. It looked like giant boulders had just been thrown down to the ground.
A mountain goat that was just off the side of the highway while we were working our way out of the park.
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On Monday, it was pretty icky looking out, but we left our comfy spot anyway and drove to Signal Mountain where we planned on hiking. It wasn't raining, so that helped. The hike was about 6 miles round trip, with the middle being the summit of the mountain. People could drive up there, so that made it sort of annoying. Getting to the top is supposed to be a reward... Oh well. It was still a nice hike and the sun was even out for a large chunk of it.
We then found a different road to go down to get to the national forest. It started pouring/hailing while driving there. The dirt road got really mucky for a bit. Enough so that I was worried we were going to get stuck. Not so! After that it was insanely potholey. We found the first place we could get off the road and slept there. It was a pretty area, if it wasn't a mud hole...
We left right away in the morning and headed for Yellowstone. While there, our first stop was Old Faithful. We watched it erupt, then walked around all the boardwalks to the other geysers. Very neat area. After our hiking yesterday and now this walk, we are both pretty sore. Apparently we need to get jogging.
The RV barely started up and has been sounding awful. So, after some discussion, we decided to just get home. Yellowstone looks awesome, but we decided we shouldn't press our luck and we would just have to leave it for another time.
On our way out of the park we saw a whole assortment of animals. Tons of Elk and Bison, a wolf and some mountain goats.
We are now about an hour away from Billings, MT. We're going to stop by Joe's sister's, Sara's, work and see her. The plan is to be home sometime in the next couple days.
I'll post photos once I get home since we are currently on the road and it's not easy to upload the photos.
-Miranda
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We got to Grand Teton National Park with a forecast of isolated thunderstorms and showers for the next 2 weeks. It was pretty busy since it was Sat. so we decided to head to the nearby National Forest and find someplace to stay. We found a great place, not too far up the nearby mountain, but we have a great view. Unfortunately, it has been raining and cloudy most of the time.
We're spending Sunday working. The sun did come out, which is very nice. Hopefully it will be decent tomorrow since we plan on doing some hiking.
-Miranda
The campsite. Lucy and Curly out exploring.
;)
A picture of the mountains with the RV. The second pic was taken only a few hours later once the sun fought its way through the clouds. Click on it to make it bigger.
Another view of the mountains we can see from the 'office' window of the RV.
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We dropped off Jenny on Thursday and stayed overnight. Jenny's mom, Pam, fed us a very nice breakfast and even bought us some donuts and other things. We headed out and stayed in a National Forest near Bear Lake. It thunderstormed and hailed right before we found our place, so the road was pretty mucky when we drove down the hill. We really hoped it wouldn't rain because we figured we might not be able to get out if it did.
Well, it rained most of the night. We woke up, and the RV started right up. Joe let the engine idle a little to warm up and revved it some, then as soon as it slowed down, it died. We could not start it again. There was a nice, 1.3 mile hike just across the highway from the road we were down, so we walked up there and went for a nice hike. We went back to the RV and had a heck of a time starting it up. It finally started and we worked our way up the hill and back to the highway. Fortunately not getting stuck.
We stopped at a rest area/overlook not far away and could not get the RV started yet again. It got to the point where Joe pulled off the engine cover, found what he believes to be the problem and got it started again.
We have decided that this will be the last trip for this RV. We're not going to dink around as much on our way back as planned either. We're heading to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, then we'll probably head straight home.
-Miranda
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