Day 23

Driving. That pretty much sums up what we did today.

We left the little RV park in Idaho and headed west to Jackson, Wyoming to grab some supplies before we headed into Yellowstone for the night. We hit the K-Mart in Jackson, gassed up and we were on our way.

We passed through Grand Teton National Park, which has some mountains in the west dropping down to alpine valleys in the east. Pretty nice. However, we encountered some major road construction leading up to Yellowstone's park gates; it set us back about a half hour.

As we drove up to the entrance kiosk, we were informed that campsites in the park are usually all taken by 10 AM. It was 4:00 by that point, and Brett had a little panic moment. The ranger suggested we try West Yellowstone, a small community just west of the park.

We set off through the park (at a max speed of 45 mph) through the 60 miles of road we needed to drive through to get to the west park gate. However, we got a taste of some of the stuff the park had to offer: geysers! We could see a bunch going off as we drove through the park, which was pretty exciting.

We finally reached West Yellowstone, and after a couple tries, we found an RV park with all the amenities we needed. We decided to stay for 2 nights and fit all the sightseeing into one day. We put up the tent, had some dinner at a cafe, then went back to the tent for the night. It got COLD that night, too! 36 defrees farenheit.

So far, we put on about 500 km's on the truck today, and we're all still in the truck.