IT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO BLOG

With posting every day on Facebook it is getting harder and harder to do the blog. You feel like you have said everything already, but you really haven't because not everyone is on Facebook. OK enough of that, I need to recap the Yellowstone blog.

But 1st, Happy belated birthday to Kelli Miller, Inara Tomlinson, and David Alton Jr.

Yellowstone

The 1st day we drove into the park to the 1st visitor center, just to find out all the things we need to see. The Ranger we talked to said you will see most of the animals early in the morning and at dusk. We asked it he knew anything about the RV Parks inside the park and he told us to go next door to 1 of the RV Parks and they could help us. We went there and made reservations for Sunday and Monday night at the Grant Campground. Then we drove back into the RV Park we were staying at, which was right outside of Yellowstone Park. We toured around and went to the Imax Theatre to watch a movie on Yellowstone. The next day, Saturday, we drove to Grant RV Park to check it out. On the way we stopped and took pictures of the Elk and Bison, the Bison were right next to the cars, Elk's you had to walk out a little bit. When we got to the RV Park and checked out the sites there was no way we were taking our rig to those little sites. So we ended up cancelling the Sunday and Monday night stays. The only reason we were trying to find another place to stay was because Yellowstone had closed down the road from Madison Junction to Norris Junction. To try and see all of Yellowstone we needed that road to be open and since it wasn't it was going to be very long driving days to see the whole place and to try and not drive when it is dark. As the Rangers said, the Bison are on the roads all the time and they guaranteed that if you hit one of those 2 thousand pound Bison, the Bison would walk away but you would not. They said the Bison might die later but your car was not going anywhere. We ended up making reservations at a motel, Travel Lodge, at the North Park entrance for Sunday night.

Driving to the Grant RV Park, on Saturday, we had passed "Old Faithful" and all the other Geyser's. So we backed tracked to "Old Faithful" and walked the area for 2 hours, at least. We did touring around all the way back to our RV Park we were staying at. The pictures we have posted show the Bison and the Elk we saw, Yellowstone is amazing to see, everyone has to make that trip. We left early on Sunday morning and did the touring around the sites closest to the North entrance of the park, plus that was where our motel was. We did the Mammoth Hot Springs loop, now in Mammoth Hot Springs the Elk are right there in the community. As said by one kid that lives there, the Elk are great lawn mowers but very loud. The male elk are always making howling noise. Monday after leaving the motel, another early start, so much for retirement, we drove back in the North Gate and stopped in Mammoth Hot Springs for breakfast. When we got out of the car there were 2 Bull Elk right in front of us fighting it out. If you look at the pics I posted we only managed to get them running after each other, it just all happened too fast. Monday, after breakfast, we drove the Canyon ridge of Yellowstone, ran into 1 Bison, didn't hit it thank goodness, but we saw Elk, Bison and Antelope. Yellowstone was just amazing, we actually need to go back and stay inside the park, at Fishing Bridge, which can handle something our size, for about 7 days if you really want to see everything.

When we left Yellowstone on Tuesday we stopped in Idaho Falls and saw my Aunt Ann, had a great time. We went out to lunch and visited for a couple hours, she has lost 40 lbs and what really surprised me was that she looks like my deceased Mom, just blew my mind, and when she turned around you would not have been able to tell the 2 apart. Dave even was blown away.

After lunch in Idaho Falls we drove to Wal-Mart in Taylorsville Utah and spent the night there. Wednesday we drove to St. George Utah and spent the night at the Elk's Lodge and had dinner with my Aunt Evelyn. We went in the late afternoon to Aunt Evelyn's and the talking never stopped. We all laughed so much I thought my sides were going to split. Would you ever think I would be talking with my Aunt Evelyn about Viagra, boy that's when I almost wet myself. Boy it sure is fun getting together with my Aunts, Mom's sisters, just wish I had more time with them.

After leaving St. George on Wednesday we were headed for Simi Valley, on the way we called the Simi Elk's Lodge and they were full. I was driving at the time and when I saw a sign that said "Old 58, Bakersfield" Dave was in the bathroom and I yelled that I had changed my mind and we were going to Bakersfield, I was just kidding. When he walked back up to the front I asked him if he had heard me and he said no. I repeated what I had said and he said let's go for it. We can drive down to Simi from Bakersfield on Saturday for David Jr's Birthday. So I ended up driving from Baker, Ca to Bakersfield Ca. long drive but well worth it. It was really a shorter drive then driving to Simi, I think.

We called Kim and she and Madison came by the coach later that afternoon. It took Madison a little time to get use to us again, but that's to be expected.

By the way we added 2 more states to our travel log, to be in the travel log states you have had to either sleep in the state or had sex in the state, we added Idaho and Montana, you guess what we had done to get that state, maybe both.:)

Next update will be the Bakersfield and Simi Valley visit.

Please remember I have updated the Pics