On the road again
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Caravan style
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Up the road aways we met up with our driving buddies and started the caravan!
Driving
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My view for the next two weeks
Outside of Fernley
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Driving the Nevada salt flats
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Loving the speed limit
Road Tripping
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Travel Buddies
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Wells, NV
August 25, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Turning off the interstate north to Idaho. Goodbye nicely paved road!
Overnight stay
August 25, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 18 °C
We spent the night at an RV park at Cactus Pete's Casino in Jackpot, a small town on the border between Nevada and Idaho. It was actually quite a cute little place with grass and trees, and perfectlyRead more
Idaho
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 28 °C
Southern Idaho looks like a whole heck of a lot of nothing
Driving Day #2
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The first stop of the day for road construction. Yippee! As a bonus, we got to pass over the Snake River Canyon which was SPECTACULAR.
Books
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 30 °C
Listening to Stephen King's Desperation on the open road - creepy!
Road maps
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 30 °C
Benchmark makes the best road maps. When we were in Utah we had ZERO cell service most of the time and relied entirely on paper maps. Luckily that's not the case this trip because we are missing anRead more
Blackfoot Rec Area
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 30 °C
All along the I84 and the I15, there are sections of the Snake River that are dammed up to provide water sources and rec areas. The rec area in Blackfoot had areas for boating, jet skis, and swimming.Read more
Into the trees
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌫 27 °C
Leaving behind the Snake River Plain and heading into the mountains in the Targhee National Forest
Island Park
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Now we're driving through Island Park, a cute little town with year round recreation. There's Buffalo River and above the dam Island Park Reservoir, and there's even a sno-park. Most of the buildingsRead more
Henrys Lake Mts
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Approaching the Henrys Lake Mountains, then we will drop down into Yellowstone.
We made it!
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Finally! Into West Yellowstone and on to Wyoming.
Yellowstone West Entrance
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We've arrived! This is the excitement on my face to see Yellowstone!!
Part 1
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The weird thing is we are driving all the way through Yellowstone and out the East entrance to visit Cody, Wyoming, then we head back to officially visit Yellowstone. Today was essentially a photo opRead more
Part 2
August 26, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
And of course we ran into several traffic jams from the bison rut, but we got to see a beautiful sunset over Yellowstone Lake.
Driving into Cody
August 27, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
We opted to stay several nights at Buffalo Bill Reservoir North Fork Campground for the duration of our time in Cody, Wyoming. It's about 15 minutes outside of Cody and sits on a beautiful man-madeRead more
Irma Hotel
August 27, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
First stop was the Irma Hotel, the original historic hotel that Buffalo Bill built in the early 1900s in the middle of nowhere, to start attracting people to his new tourist town of Cody. It's builtRead more
Trolley Ride
August 27, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We signed up for a tour of Cody by trolley. They took us back to the foundation of the town and what Buffalo Bill had in mind when he established the town. The population is only about 9,000 peopleRead more
Old Trail Town
August 27, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Next up was Old Trail Town, a collection of original buildings from the cowboy days arranged into a Main Street and town. We were able to see the Hole in the Wall cabin, which was the hideout forRead more