10/1/23 Away to South Dakota

Saturday 9/30 was a looong driving day. It was all I-90, for 350 miles from the Caverns to Buffalo Wyoming. The scenery was pretty and there was a lot of uppy-downy mountain hills. Not like the passes in “DAHO” or western Montana, but enough that we’re glad we aren’t here in the snow for all the ‘chains required’ sections. At least traffic was light and it was sunny, so it was a pleasant drive.

Last night while working on the blog, I could not get it to save my work. GRRR. We have pretty good cell service now, so I’ve been trying to get caught up and then I had to research and try to figure out why it won’t save. I’m SOO not techie, so when I find stuff that says to check the abc file or the xyz interface or the lmnop thingamajig, I’m lost. But while I was trying to see if anything would save, I tried updating an old page. That bombed. I created a new page and it saved!. I tried adding new content to the new page, and Bomb. WHY?! I figured out that emoji’s seemed to be the problem. I tried deleting all of my emotion, and it worked. So now I can’t write with any cute emotion. 🙁 I guess I’ll have to write better so you can figure out when I’m shrugging my shoulders. ^^ Sheeesh!

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Jackson Hole WY to Moab UT – 7.15.16

This was a long day of driving, but it was so scenic and everything we saw was amazingly diverse, so it kept us interested the whole time.  We drove all non-interstate highways for about 500 miles, and it took us about 9 hours.

Middle of "not-even-on-the-map" Colorado
Somewhere “not-even-on-the-map” Colorado

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We left Jackson Hole, which is a beautiful little town.  Read more

Yellowstone Day 2, Grand Tetons to Jackson WY – 7.14.16

We started today from the West Yellowstone entrance.  Our first stop was the Grand Prismatic Spring.  This is hot water steaming on a cool morning, flowing from the spring into the river.

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Hot water from the Grand Prismatic Spring

I had hoped to see the spring pool from a higher elevation on the Fairy Falls trail, but it was closed. 🙁  We couldn’t really see the pool of water, just the steam rising.  Read more

Yellowstone, Day One – 7.13.16

Neither of us have ever been to Yellowstone, so we have a lot that we want to see!  We took lots of pictures; this is just a few to share from Day one.  Since we stayed in Gardiner, we entered the park at the North entrance.  Mammoth Hot Springs was our first stop.  There are some amazing formations here, as the earth spits and grows more and more all the time.  Lots of calcium carbonate – walking around on earths very own Rolaids supply!

Mammoth Hot Springs
Mammoth Hot Springs

Mammoth Hot Springs upper terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs upper terrace

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