Sunday, June 29, 2008

A little bit of difficulty leaving today. The tongue jack went up, but wouldn't come down. A fuse fixed the problem. Just hooking up was a problem. Tent campers were across from us that weren't there when we pulled in.... but one was nice enough to move his car. Frank had to put the sway control on after we pulled out of our spot. Nothing major, but enough to make one's headache worse. We pulled out at 10:30 am (GA Time 8:30 Mt T).


The scenery was beautiful on the way to Yellowstone... mountains, farmland and blue skies.


We arrived at our campground in Yellowstone, Fishing Bridge, at around 2:15 pm (GA time... 12:15 pm Mt T) (only an approximate time of arrival...neither of us looked at a clock). A bit of squirming to get in space D 117... we fit hitch to bumper, barely. The truck parks by the trailer very close to the trailer's slide out.


After setting up we ate dinner of leftover steak, peas and the potato salad. Then off sight-seeing. We traveled back towards Canyon Village and just past Mount Washburn.


The scenery at Yellowstone is beautiful. There are still signs of the fires that ravaged the park a few years back.


We saw lots of things that steamed and some that bellowed (Mud Volcano, Sulpher Caldron and Dragon's Mouth Spring) and there were cascading waterfalls and fast running rapids (Upper and Lower Falls and Lehardy Rapids). There is still snow in some places.


There was a grizzly in the woods laying by a log.... with any luck I might have it on video camera... but there was so many people and they weren't looking where they were walking... this was when we still had the trailer hooked to the truck. We managed not to have any pedestrians run into us and none of our blood vessels broke :-)


After dinner we saw mule deer and buffalo. Yep.. the people were really too close to the animals. A boy about 10 or 12 years old was gored by a buffalo a few days ago... last I heard he was in critical condition... he was posing in front of the buffalo with family members for a picture. Signs and brochures abound telling people not to get close to the wildlife, but some people just don't seem to understand.


We saw pelicans, seagulls, canada geese and a gray jay.


We got tired and came back home. We talked to some people that own a Tundra Travel Trailer like ours.... they've had no problems with theirs.


Then we took showers in the trailer and grabbed a snack. Frank read while I put the pictures I took today on dvd. Frank is asleep now. I'm about there myself.


We traveled 129 miles today.