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