Yellowstone Bed & Breakfast Dubois

... About 20 minutes go by and we're finally seeing asphalt again. The pilot truck pulls over and waves us by. A long line of cars is behind us.

We're driving on the eastern side of the Tetons, snow on top. It's beautiful outside, the sun shining bright on the snow topped mountains. A large river parallels the road and finally we see the sign we've been waiting for....Yellowstone National Park!

... deep, and I was hydroplaning through them. Being thankful for not already having crashed, I did slow down a bit. The lightening show was spectacular though, illuminating the night and striking the nearby hilltops. I stopped for the night in Dubois, Wyoming and enjoyed a greasy burger and cold beer before crashing. Mileage for the day: 553km

... other in Thermopolis (where we had to stop to soak in the springs of course). Amazing to see these ancient pictures carved into stone and wonder about the people who carved them and the purpose in doing so. Wind River Canyon was an amazing drive as was Big Horn Canyon and we were lucky enough to do that one twice! After my dear husband forgot his wallet 100 miles back at our cottage - Er! Go visit Wyoming!

Start of the trip. End of the summer at TVRC. Time to hit the road! Can't contain shouts of joy; a sunny 3 hour ride to Sarge's ranch on the other side of Lander. A good lamb roast and some time with good friends. Great smores.

Left Sturgis and Sheldon at about 9:30a.m.. He remembered to wish me Happy Birthday. Left on my own, aiming in the direction of Jackson Hole. Beautiful, hot day. At about 2p.m. realized I was getting very burnt. Temp today 96F. Great roads. Lots of bikes. Travelled to Buffalo, Worland.... In Thermopolis ran into winds that were making my bike dip and weave like the birds. A bit of rain that felt like needles. Solution....speed up and race and rain ...

You can't go into the Old West without a little Cowboy town beauty and activity, and Cody Wyoming was just that. Home to the famous Buffalo Bill Cody we got our old west fill with, a gun fight, some country eats, a night rodeo, and just some old west flavor.

Last Saturday, Matt and I packed up camp for the last time in Keystone and headed down to Longmont where we stuffed more of our junk into Matt's brother's garage, effectively serving as our storage unit during our travels (thanks Adam and Lauren!) That evening we had fun at Adam's grad school graduation party, then began our drive North until we found a suitable trucker parking area to sleep in the back of my Subaru in. Next morn, we had breakfast at a small town cafe and met up with my folks ...

After leaving Yellowstone we stayed a night in Cody, Wyoming. A small town, big on rodeos and even bigger on the cost of rooms. There we discovered that we were heading straight into the world's largest Harley Davidson motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. Along the road from Cody to The Black Hills we went through Big Horn National Forest. This looks like a great place to vacation in the near ...

Ashamed of my California license plates, Jeff and I will arrive in the place formally known as the best place in the whole wide world (my previous dubbing of Lander although Wyoming maintains this lofty title) this afternoon. I'm only ceding Lander's placement in the event that I'm not able to return there...but Wyoming is an uncontested display ...

... he got past them and actually got a real fly to eat.
I stopped at Bridge Bay for lunch and then looped westerly to see that most famous sight here-Old Faithful. I timed it right and didn't have too long to wait to see it go off. It was kind of anticlimactic after seeing it. You sit there with anticipation, looking at your watch, seeing the estimated time it supposed to go off, and then whoosh-it's over and as ...