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
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Turning off the interstate north to Idaho. Goodbye nicely paved road!
Overnight stay
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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 perfectlyLue lisää
Idaho
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Southern Idaho looks like a whole heck of a lot of nothing
Driving Day #2
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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
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Listening to Stephen King's Desperation on the open road - creepy!
Road maps
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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 anLue lisää
Blackfoot Rec Area
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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.Lue lisää
Into the trees
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Leaving behind the Snake River Plain and heading into the mountains in the Targhee National Forest
Island Park
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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 buildingsLue lisää
Henrys Lake Mts
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Approaching the Henrys Lake Mountains, then we will drop down into Yellowstone.
We made it!
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Finally! Into West Yellowstone and on to Wyoming.
Yellowstone West Entrance
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We've arrived! This is the excitement on my face to see Yellowstone!!
Part 1
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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 opLue lisää
Part 2
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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
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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-madeLue lisää
Irma Hotel
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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 builtLue lisää
Trolley Ride
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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 peopleLue lisää
Old Trail Town
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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 forLue lisää