Category: Wyoming
Tues 29 Aug – Back to large Plains
The road south from the Tetons took us back through Jackson and the hills and valleys further south. Almost immediately we found several sets of roadworks where the road is down to a single lane. It seems common to have people controlling the traffic with those ‘lollipop’ signs. Not too bad on this journey though,…
Mon 28 Aug – Tetons
We got up early in the morning to watch the sunrise hit the Tetons. It was really quite cold, and the sky was a bit hazy still, from the wildfires in Montana and Idaho, so the sunrise wasn’t as good as it could have been. But we did see an otter out for an early…
Sun 27 Aug – Bunsen Peak to Grand Tetons
We had woken the last three mornings with it being quite cold, very unlike the mornings before we had arrived in Yellowstone. This morning we set off for a walk before it got too warm and initially I was not prepared to part with my hat or jumper. The walk started gently….. but got steeper…
Sat 26 Aug – Mammoth
We started our day with a waterfall, Gibbon falls. We then drove on toward Mammoth Hot Springs, but the temptation of a collection of springs called ‘Chocolate Pot’ springs was just too much to ignore, and proved well worth the stop, the rich collection of browns on this spring were stunning. We heading across the…
Fri 25 Aug – Yellowstone
Having camped a short distance outside the east entrance to Yellowstone, we still had to redo the climb over the mountains from the east entrance, looking down on the clouds below and the descent back to the lake. We did this early in the morning hoping to secure a place to camp in the park,…
Thur 24 Aug – Crossing Mountains
We set out from Buffalo, still heading west, and the land is reasonably flat but there are hills in the distance That’s not Yellowstone yet, those are the Big Horn mountains, seen here from a town called Tongue River… Soon we were climbing those mountains, with the plain we had just covered from Buffalo far…
Wed 23 Aug – Close encounter
We stayed overnight in a town called ‘Deadwood’, famous as the place where ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok was killed. Lots of people said we must see it – we were not greatly impressed. We travelled on to Devil’s Tower – probably most famous after the ‘Close Encounters’ film. You really can see it from miles away…
Tue 22 Aug – 3 States and Mount Rushmore
Today we drove east across Wyoming, taking in the north-west corner of Nebraska, and then north into South Dakota, towards Mount Rushmore. First thing to note is that the south-east corner of Wyoming and the north-west corner of Nebraska are rather empty. Having said that, there is a real sense of space and sheer size…
Mon 21 Aug – 2′ 22″ of darkness
The day started beautifully with a brilliant sunrise to match the previous evening’s sunset We wandered around the site while the eclipse developed, and some nearby people had a collection of telescopes, and our RV neighbours took a picture of the pair of us. Strangely, nobody we met had ever seen a total eclipse before,…
Sun 20 Aug – Jackalopes and Trains
We headed into Douglas early hoping to avoid walking in the heat that we had done yesterday afternoon. Douglas is the home of the Jackalope and there were plenty of signs of that in the town. and on the end of many of their park benches I really hope that they are not this big…