On the road again
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Caravan style
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Up the road aways we met up with our driving buddies and started the caravan!
Driving
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
My view for the next two weeks
Outside of Fernley
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Driving the Nevada salt flats
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Loving the speed limit
Road Tripping
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Travel Buddies
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Wells, NV
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Turning off the interstate north to Idaho. Goodbye nicely paved road!
Overnight stay
25 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 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 perfectlyMeer informatie
Idaho
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 28 °C
Southern Idaho looks like a whole heck of a lot of nothing
Driving Day #2
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 30 °C
Listening to Stephen King's Desperation on the open road - creepy!
Road maps
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 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 anMeer informatie
Blackfoot Rec Area
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 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.Meer informatie
Into the trees
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌫 27 °C
Leaving behind the Snake River Plain and heading into the mountains in the Targhee National Forest
Island Park
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 buildingsMeer informatie
Henrys Lake Mts
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Approaching the Henrys Lake Mountains, then we will drop down into Yellowstone.
We made it!
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Finally! Into West Yellowstone and on to Wyoming.
Yellowstone West Entrance
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We've arrived! This is the excitement on my face to see Yellowstone!!
Part 1
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 opMeer informatie
Part 2
26 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 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
27 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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-madeMeer informatie
Irma Hotel
27 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 builtMeer informatie
Trolley Ride
27 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 peopleMeer informatie
Old Trail Town
27 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 forMeer informatie