Aug 21

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Hello from Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.

We left the campsite and began our trek at the local fuel stop.  While Jerry filled the car (which took much less time than the camper :) ) I snapped the picture of the hides for sale at the shop in West Yellowstone. 

We then entered Yellowstone Park and drove south past the Old Faithful area, Lewis Lake (looks like an ocean with white caps on it ), stopped at Flagg Ranch for lunch, continued south past two continental divides on high passes.  We crossed over into the Tetons and what views.  Sorry I couldn't get anything to load on the blog for today's trip so you have many pictures along the way in the link above.  We continued on to Jackson Hole, WY and it was the Western town look which was having an art fair....Jerry didn't stop.  Before we arrived there the pictures show a trail ride from a dude ranch.  The elk statues are at a museum just before Jackson.  The green mountains with snow ski slopes is at Jackson.   I had gone through four sets of batteries and our drive out the 10% grade is not recorded on "film".  It was beautiful.  Well worth the drive.   Yes, there is still snow on the Teton peaks.  They are in the 10K height range Grand Teton I think is over that.

We stopped at an Ace Hardware and I found a battery charger with the car adapter for a "fast" charge.  So 15 minutes later we had freshly charged batteries that held the charge.  (I pitched the old charger when we arrived at the camper.)  

We went along 22 in WY, then 33 and 32 in Idaho. Then back to 20 which brought us back into  West Yellowstone.

 At Jackson we were still seeing Tetons off to the right.  We topped that mountain and kept seeing Tetons for a few miles then went back to seeing farmland.  You'll see some hay/straw bales in some of the pics that just happened to get in the picture.  These are the big, big bales.

During the farm land part of the trip the darker clouds started appearing and we ended up with a light drizzle for a few miles, just enough to get the windshield clean again.  We were near the earthquake lakes that we had seen on the way in on the other road (287).  Anyway, somewhere along the way the beautiful rainbow came out.  It stayed for a long time, so there are several pictures.  I could not get it all into one picture it was so wide. 

We came back into West Yellowstone, stopped at the grocery, Jerry fixed hamburger helper, we ate and then I went across the road in the campground and did laundry (so this must have been week three of the trip).  Only two washers but I got most of it done and had a nice talk with people here from South Carolina.  We have nice neighbors in the park.  The young couple next door have two very well behaved dogs that great us while we are outside the camper.  They are showing Yellowstone to a niece who is moving to Ohio.  They are doing some hiking. 

Well in more than a nutshell that was Saturday, August 20.  Sorry the pictures wouldn't upload but hopefully the link to Wal-Mart will work if you want to view them.