High Point: Lunch at the Mexican Burrito Bus outside of Yellowstone Low Point: Coming into Jackson from Hwy 22 over the mountains Today we left the Yellowstone area and traveled south into the Grand Tetons. Leaving Gardiner, we stopped for a few pictures of the main street and the park entrance. Mike packing up the […]
High Point: Happy Birthday, Mike (we gave him a good hiking hat). Looking up at the mountains while resting in a hot spring pool Low Point: Getting ready to camp without hookups and knowing the camper isn’t working correctly; Having to break the news to the girls that all the “moose” they thought they saw […]
High Points: The moose count is now up to 38 still at 6! Seeing the Lower Falls Low Points: The 328 stairs that lead back up from the Lower Falls observation point along the Uncle Tom Richardson Trail. Also, it looks like the refrigerator just will not run on LP until we get it serviced. […]
High Points: 6 moose, 1 almost-visible grizzly, erupting geysers Low Points: Traffic, Traffic, and still more traffic Today we made arrangements for the campground to walk and water the dog while we explored the section of Yellowstone between Norris and Old Faithful. That’s only 60 miles of driving (30 to Norris, and then 30 […]
Time for a change of pace. Time to slow down and start planning our visit to Yellowstone. So happy to be out of the car for a full day of driving! Seriously, if you have never driven in a car for 5 straight days with kids, you likely can’t appreciate the mileage they can get […]
We took it easy this morning and let everybody catch up on some sleep. Buster woke the girls up when he started growling at some deer walking by, but we threw him in bed with us so everybody could get an extra hour of sleep. When we finally got moving, we hung out on the […]
Checkout at the KOA was scheduled for 11, so we had a quick breakfast of the donuts we’d bought at Wall Drug and headed out to the tower to do the mile long walk around the base. Buster stayed in the camper and slept in. Julia & Elizabeth climbing in the rock field beneath Devils […]
The long drive was totally worth it. Our view out the windows in the morning was unexpected and absolutely beautiful. We made a quick breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast, packed up the truck, made a quick stop at the visitor’s center, and started our tour of the Badlands. It felt good to finally slow […]
Evidence of the tornado could be seen a lot better in daylight. The guy in the next site had a tree on top of his trailer, so we watched them take it down with chainsaws while we cooked up eggs and toast and packed up the next morning. Elizabeth starts her trip journal A first […]
The drive: When we left on Monday, we had two days to drive 17 hours to Badlands National Park, our first real stop. We were hoping to start out with a long day of driving and then a shorter drive on Tuesday so we could set up and see a bit of the Badlands before […]
The trip: We’ve wanted to take some long camping trips with the girls, and this is our first trip longer than our 10 day trip to Michigan’s UP last summer. We’re bringing along our Trail Manor, a hard-sided pop-up camper that is loaded with a fridge, stove, and bathroom. We expect to do some shuffling […]
