Wyoming

We often assume the best hiking is inside our national parks. While I would never dispute that there are some amazing hiking trails at national parks (the Highline Trail in…

For the next stop on our Idaho summer tour, we went east into Wyoming. Wait…what? Let me explain. From our previous spot on the Idaho/Wyoming border, we wanted to head…

I probably should have titled this post differently since we didn’t do anything even remotely “holiday-ish”. We did, however, enjoy a long four-day weekend so I guess that qualifies as…

That’s quite a combo isn’t it? Fortunately, the parking lot portion of the week was separate from the bluegrass festival. After leaving Colorado we had to make a necessary stop…

We don’t follow many hard and fast rules when it comes to driving days. We don’t avoid rainy weather days, we don’t always stick to the 200 miles or under rule, and…

Last post I told you how we arrived at Indian Creek Campground mid-afternoon and snagged the last site. What I didn’t tell you was that this was our first pull-thru site ever.…

Picking up where we left off last time, here’s a bunch of pictures of geysers, hot springs and steaming mud pots.  The first batch were all taken in the Old…

On our last day in the Tetons we took a boat ride across Jenny Lake and did a bit of hiking. Jenny Lake is a popular destination in the park…

Well hello world…it’s been awhile. We’ve been without an internet connection since we left Dubois, WY on Tuesday morning. Our cell service returned yesterday when we arrived in the Teton…

Another long driving day. In the past two days we’ve driven about 400 miles from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the western side of Wyoming. We’re in the…

Friday morning we left the Badlands and headed west across the plains. As the rocky formations retreated into the distance, the terrain quickly flattened and turned into a sea of…