Day 36 (The Hazzards' day off)
Day 36
July 27, 2006
Yellowstone NP, WY to Grand Teton NP, WY (65 miles)
One of the great unexpected pleasures of this trip has been meeting campground neighbors along the way. Frequently we have discovered that we are headed in opposite directions so we each provide advice on where to go and what to do at the next port of call. At Grant Village Campground we were befriended by one of the nicest couples you could ever meet, Rose, a fireman’s widow (Minneapolis; Local 82), and her second husband, Tim, now retired to Mesa, Arizona, and traveling by motorcycle (and towing a pop-up) all summer to escape the heat there. They are known throughout the western US as Bonnie and Clyde (according to Thelma and Louise). They gave us advice on where to go and what to do in the Twin Cities area and we swapped email addresses and bid each other safe travel.
None of us wanted to say goodbye to Yellowstone. We all agree that it was the best place we’d been to so far. Grand Teton is no slouch park, though! The drive was mercifully short today, we needed a short drive after the hundreds of miles we logged at Yellowstone over the past three days.
The weather today was absolutely perfect. There was not a cloud in the sky from dawn to dusk. The high temp was 83 degrees with about 15% humidity and almost no wind.
Even before we checked into Coulter Bay Campground, we stopped at the Coulter Bay General Store where we were wowed by the view from the parking lot. Seeing snow on mountains in late July is captivating for people of all ages. We noticed that almost everyone walking into or out of the store paused for a moment just to take it in.
After conferring with a ranger at the visitor center on what our options were, we had a family pow-wow on a bench under some lodge pole pines and decided that we would slow down our pace a bit and spend the day swimming and catching up on email. The Teton Lodge, just five miles to the south, had an outdoor pool that campers were welcome to use and the Lodge’s lobby was a hot spot, so we put on our swimsuits and headed there.
It was the perfect remedy for our weary clan. We spent most of the afternoon acting like we were on vacation for a change. Later, after we returned to our campsite, the kids sat in the car for an hour and read the newspaper (we think they were feeling sort of unsettled by such a short drive today). Good stuff!
July 27, 2006
Yellowstone NP, WY to Grand Teton NP, WY (65 miles)
One of the great unexpected pleasures of this trip has been meeting campground neighbors along the way. Frequently we have discovered that we are headed in opposite directions so we each provide advice on where to go and what to do at the next port of call. At Grant Village Campground we were befriended by one of the nicest couples you could ever meet, Rose, a fireman’s widow (Minneapolis; Local 82), and her second husband, Tim, now retired to Mesa, Arizona, and traveling by motorcycle (and towing a pop-up) all summer to escape the heat there. They are known throughout the western US as Bonnie and Clyde (according to Thelma and Louise). They gave us advice on where to go and what to do in the Twin Cities area and we swapped email addresses and bid each other safe travel.
None of us wanted to say goodbye to Yellowstone. We all agree that it was the best place we’d been to so far. Grand Teton is no slouch park, though! The drive was mercifully short today, we needed a short drive after the hundreds of miles we logged at Yellowstone over the past three days.The weather today was absolutely perfect. There was not a cloud in the sky from dawn to dusk. The high temp was 83 degrees with about 15% humidity and almost no wind.
Even before we checked into Coulter Bay Campground, we stopped at the Coulter Bay General Store where we were wowed by the view from the parking lot. Seeing snow on mountains in late July is captivating for people of all ages. We noticed that almost everyone walking into or out of the store paused for a moment just to take it in.
After conferring with a ranger at the visitor center on what our options were, we had a family pow-wow on a bench under some lodge pole pines and decided that we would slow down our pace a bit and spend the day swimming and catching up on email. The Teton Lodge, just five miles to the south, had an outdoor pool that campers were welcome to use and the Lodge’s lobby was a hot spot, so we put on our swimsuits and headed there.
It was the perfect remedy for our weary clan. We spent most of the afternoon acting like we were on vacation for a change. Later, after we returned to our campsite, the kids sat in the car for an hour and read the newspaper (we think they were feeling sort of unsettled by such a short drive today). Good stuff!
posted by Hazzard Family | 15:04
1 Comments:
Elliot - Please do not read while you are driving, I have seen your Dad do this and it is not pretty.
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