From: wolverine01@charter.net   
      
   On 6/22/2025 10:26 AM, Ted Heise wrote:   
   > On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:27:33 -0000 (UTC),   
   >    Ted Heise  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>   Day 1 was driving west...   
   >>>>>>   Day 2 we swung up into Iowa and drove across it   
   >>>>>   Day 3 we headed across Nebraska.   
   >>>>   Day 4 we drove into Casper, WY.   
   >>>   On day 5 we drove to Yellowstone   
   >>   day 6) ... drove north along the Yellowstone River   
   >   
   > On day 7 we packed up the trailer and headed with it to Old   
   > Faithful.  We didn’t have a great distance to cover for our next   
   > campground so I figured we could spend the morning seeing more   
   > sights; also, that the geyser would have ample parking.  We   
   > arrived with about 15 minutes to the next eruption, so that timing   
   > worked well.   
   >   
   > After that we drove on toward Grand Prismatic Spring and I pulled   
   > into the small parking loop.  Boy, that was a mistake!  Traffic   
   > was backed up waiting for spaces, and it took 10-15 minutes to get   
   > into the actual parking area.  They had 2 or 3 spaces designated   
   > for RVs, but of course they were full.  So I dropped off Kathy and   
   > asked her to get some pictures while I drove up and down the park   
   > road that passes the site.   
   >   
      
   Crowds suck.  Plus, the people are often foreigners and are plenty rude.   
     Going into the Bryce Park store was ridiculous.  Out in the hiking   
   areas people act like they have no respect for the area or the other   
   people there.  I tend to either go in the off-season or just pick places   
   fewer people will be at.  It's just a fact of life now.   
      
   But, I'm all in for making access available to these parks to American   
   citizens first.   
      
   > Once I picked her up, we drove on to Grand Teton NP.  Jackson Lake   
   > was just stunning, but our campground was in Dubois—another hour   
   > or more east of the park.  On top of that, we needed groceries.   
   > Thinking Dubois didn’t have much, we drove on to Jackson, then to   
   > Dubois.  That ended up being several hours, time I had not planned   
   > on, so it was rather late by the time we got to Dubois.   
   >   
   > https://panix.com/~theise/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250528_131709.jpg   
      
   Beautiful pic.  Still plenty of snow in the upper elevations.  Would   
   love to throw in a line there.   
      
      
      
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