Monthly Archives: September 2011

Today, we toured the northern section of the Park’s figure-eight road pattern.  Both the Yellowstone River and range land where the bison graze were partly shrouded in a morning mist. We saw an osprey and just missed a fox sighting … Continue reading →

The internal roads in Yellowstone form a figure “8”.   Today, we decided on the southern route which would take us past “Old Faithful”, the park’s most famous geyser.   We’d no sooner left our campground that we were greeted by one … Continue reading →

We left Jackson Hole and the Tetons for Yellowstone this morning.  The highlight of the drive was spotting two Sandhill Cranes in a field. After a winding road through the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, a protected area between … Continue reading →

Labor Day –  We awoke on this morning to the unmistakable odor of smoke.  However, we passed it off as the remnants of a campfire one of our campground neighbors had last night.  Heading north toward Grand Teton National Park, … Continue reading →

Leaving our campground in Arco, ID we continued east through barren, sagebrush covered land, much of it owned by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory and, on which sits the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, where the world’s first … Continue reading →

Leaving Jerome, we continued to drive thru agricultural area areas where hay and Idaho potatoes (what else?) appeared to be the main crops. From time to time, we’d spot cattle grazing on both fenced and open range land.  Surprisingly, however, … Continue reading →

The first 100 miles of the drive between Caldwell and Jerome/Twin Falls took us through more flat barren lands, occasionally interrupted by a wind farm or areas where wild or controlled burns had taken place in the not too distant … Continue reading →

Leaving our campground in Bruns, Oregon we began a 23 mile drive east along a perfectly straight US Route 20. The road then climbed through nearly barren land up to Stinking Water Pass (you’ve got to wonder where some of … Continue reading →