We thought of Yellowstone because of our friends, Nelson and Michelle Chapman, who had planned to come to the States from Korea for school and family visiting and at the beginning of their trip to the States wanted to do their own vacation. And as Jesse and I had not been to Yellowstone Park and we live on the western US, we decided to drive up about 18 hours to the park and spend time there on our own for about 5 days and then meet up with Nelson and Michelle for the remainder of the trip.
(Driving through the west side of the Painted Desert)
So, as this drive up was to be about 18 hours, we decided to split the trip over two days worth of driving...up through Arizona, into Utah, weaving into and out of Wyoming and ultimately reaching the Park on the south entrance just north of Jackson Hole, WY.
As I've taken many photos and videos, I plan on splitting the days into several blogs. The drive up was actually quite fun: watching all of the beautiful scenery, listening to lots of ipod programs with Jesse, seeing a LOT of quirky stuff, and spending quality time with Jesse. Thank the Lord that we did not have any car problems! The first night we stayed in Salt Lake City...since we arrived later than planned, we went straight to the hotel and crashed. The next day we got up and headed on after breakfast and drove about another 8 hours into the Tetons
where we were to stay at a campground and camp out in our tent.
That was quite fun as it gave me more practice in sleeping in a tent and it prepared us for keeping our campsite 'bear-proof'!
And thankfully it had a bath building down the path so that we actually got warm showers the night before we would enter Yellowstone to do 3 days/2 nights worth of backcountry camping. After we set up our tent, we got supper going and then enjoyed some S'mores and a game of 'Pirates' Cove'.
Additionally, we met a new friend named Bill who was in the campsite next to us and he was in the middle of quite a long road trip that would last for 2 weeks.
Thankfully no bears entered our tent and after a yummy breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast, we packed up and headed out to Yellowstone!
Yes, the drive the whole time was amazing and the weather was perfect, even when some storms crossed the landscape, the clouds and lightning, sunsets, 'dustdevils', and so forth were just glorious!
Here are the photos and video to show our fun road trip up to Yellowstone and our campground experience in the Tetons' Flagg Ranch Resort Campground.
Now, we're in almost in Wyoming leaving Utah and soon will see the remnants of the Winter Olympics as we exit to find breakfast...
We are in Wyoming the second day of our drive
This was a bridge to a sporting/fishing resort
The Tetons!
Taking a photo of the Korean tourists taking a photo of the large antler arch
Taking a photo of the Korean tourists taking a photo of the large antler arch
I can't get the videos to upload for some reason, so I'll try them in another post.
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