Wow, this is a big park..let's go ride a horse.

Hi all,

We have noticed that yellowstone is not big, it's Huge!  We spent all day exploring the old faithful area and that is just a small sliver of the park.  The National  park service does a great job maintaining the park.

The family in front of the prismatic  spring

Nancy  modeling on the boardwalk

Next we drove around the north part of the park to Lamar valley. We saw bison, pronghorn, elk and deer.  We watched stupid tourists trying to get close to the bison for that perfect picture!

Bison

On the way out of the park, we found a grizzly with two cubs! It was a great event. The bears walked to a stream and splashed around and then crossed the road.

We rested a day and then went horseback riding at  Eagle Ranch in Island park, Idaho. The kids really enjoyed themselves (Alexander smiled a lot). Devon and Nancy were amazed that the horses just pooped as they walked!

Well, tomorrow we are off to Mammoth hot springs and then to boiling river for a dip.

Good travels all,

Gordon

We are here!

Hi all,

  We had an uneventful drive here.  We tried to meet Ed and Rae at Idaho Falls but they had RV troubles and we did not meet (they did get their rv repaired).

   But some good things to know. There is a Five Guys next to Costco in Pocatello!

Good to know info

   We arrived at our rv park and it is beautiful!

Lake at sunset

     










   We arrived late in the evening the day before our reservations and we dry camped in the boat trailer  area.  The next morning, the manager came out and yelled at us because there is no dry camping on the property.   We thought we were going to have an unpleasant stay but he must have taken a Midol and calmed down.

We have hiked around the grounds and have not yet gone to Yellowstone.

Nancy on the lake

Well, that's all for now. We are going into town later but that's about all for today.

Good travels, 

Gordon

New 2016 adventure

Hi all,

We are all loaded up.  We have a new masthead on the front of Gulliver  (Well, it would be a masthead if Gulliver had a mast).  I had Superman on there last year but Devon snatched him up.  I asked Alex to find a Action figure to put on Gulliver and this is what he came up with....I like it!

Gulliver will be tailgating the Enterprise the whole trip.

Anyway, let's see, newspaper held....check...House sitter....check...a hundred other things we were supposed to do before we left...check..ish

Anyway, we are off to Yellowstone.  We will be staying outside the park, near West Yellowstone.  

Hiking, trout fishing, sleeping, you know, all that vacation stuff.

Good travels, 

Gordon