Day 64: Onward to Gardiner, MT

-
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Today we pack up and go to Gardiner, MT.  We get to see how the experts do it.  We travel north through Yellowstone, through Mammoth Hot Springs and onward to Gardiner.  When we get there David and Susan head off to their RV park and we go to our motel.

Actually, the place we stay is rented as a vacation home.  I think this is the ultimate way for a person to run a place out.  We are actually in an old motel.  It looks just like on except everything has been converted (i.e. the office) to living space.  We have a one room place with a full size bed and one set of bunk beds.  A table for eating or working.  They don't have to have any personnel at the premise.

We go and have lunch at Iron Horse Bar and Grill.


We take an afternoon-evening ride into Lamar Valley and then to Cooke City in the North East corner of Yellowstone and then we head back to Gardiner.



Prong Horn Antelope

Petrified Tree - evidently there used to be more but people took them piece by piece.

Bison rolling in dirt

At the restroom at turnoff for Slough Creek when this Coyote walks right bye.
 Mountain goats:  they are not native to Yellowstone.  This reminds me of when I was in Alaska, one of the guides would say, "You see that white dot up there on the mountain, thats a dall sheep."  I could not even see these without the camera.



 

We eat dinner in Cooke City.  We were at the because was thinking staying up here after Gardiner.  He found out the RV park was still closed.  On the way into the city I see a bar that looks like it says "Hoosiers".  So after dinner I walk down the street and this is what I saw.


For those of who do not know, I am from the hoosier state.

On the way back from dinner we see a car jam.  It turns out a couple of male moose are grazing.












Parks visited:
  • Big Bend National Park
  • Grand Canyon National Park
  • Upper Antelope Canyon
  • Horseshoe Bend
  • Arches National Park
  • Canyonlands National Park
  • Bryce Canyon National Park
  • Zion National Park
  • Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
  • Utah Lake State Park
  • Shoshone Falls Park
  • Yellowstone National Park
Paul and Vicki Kristoff
photo@kristoffs.com
PaulKristoffPhotography.com
paulkristoff.blogspot.com/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What has Paul been doing this summer?

-
2018 thus far I was expecting this year to be a whole lot better for me than what has happened.   The reason is because of the odd decade phenomenon, that I have noticed over the years.   In my 30 th decade of life I divorced from my first marriage – not a good thing.   In my 50 th decade of life I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.   So, this being an even decade I was not expecting any big life changing negative events. But … In February my neurologist did not raise my medication for my PD symptoms.   I was expecting to get an increase in my medication since my off-time was starting to increase and I was having trouble sleeping through the night.   For those of you who do not know what off-time means it is when my medication wears off between medication dosages and my PD symptoms begin to show.   When this has happened in the past the neurologist always raised the dosage. In April Vicki and I took the Motorhome down to Orlando to meet
Read more

Day 13 - The River Road Trip, Take 1

-
Image
This day began with me getting up in the morning 5:30am for sunrise pictures in Big Bend.  I went to Sotol Vista.  It looked like an interesting sunrise position, but the sun did not do much.  Below are a few pictures from there: Next on our agenda was to drive the river road in Big Bend Ranch State Park.  This is a drive on TX 170 from Lajitas to Presidio.  A couple of people, we have met on the way, highly recommended it. It runs along the Rio Grande through the mountains.  You may or may not know, Max is a bit spoiled.  When he goes for a car ride, he has to have the window open so he can stick his head out the window.  He does this even at 60 mph. When I get back from sunrise pictures, Vicki and I eat breakfast and prepare for the drive.  The plan was to go to Presidio, eat, grocery shop and return.  Of course we would stop on the way and I would take some pictures.  We take off around 11:30pm and get to the outskirts of Lajitas when Vicki gets a phone call which comes
Read more

The National Park tour. Day: -1

-
As many of you know Vicki and I have been planning a trip out west to visit some National Parks and visit friends and family on the way. We will be doing that starting tomorrow (April 1, 2017). We have spent the last few months getting ready for this trip, including buying a travel trailer. The current plan is to visit the following national parks: Big Bend National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arches National Park Canyon Lands National Park Bryce Canyon National Park Zion National Park Yellowstone National Park Grand Tetons National Park We have reservations at travel trailer parks from Apex all the way through the Grand Tetons. If I count right 22 different parks. We still do not know the plans for on the way back. We are both very nervous about the trip as we have never done travel trailers to this extent. There is lots of stuff we need to remember both in travel trailer stuff and the fact we will be gone for so long. The total distan
Read more