Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Posted from: West Yellowstone, MT - Yellowstone West KOA
Miles driven: 382
Total trip miles: 8,404
Another travel day dawned bright and clear. It would be a long day with just under 400 miles, so we left as early as we could manage after our late night. We were on the road by 8:00.
It was a relatively uneventful drive as we enjoyed mile after mile of beautiful Montana countryside.
A couple observations:
1) Kids will naturally refuse to pronounce the town of Butte correctly.
2) This is the time of year when bulls are allowed in with the cows...So Caleb naturally pointed out the "two cows fighting." "Boom! Take that!" he said. Matt was able to recover and dry his eyes while continuing to drive. I'm not sure how he did it... I was doubled over with laughter.
It was also a strange sensation to drive through two mountain ranges. We did this for several miles. The mountains are so tall and big that you don't feel like you are moving. Beautiful, but a little discouraging when you have a lot of miles to travel.
It was nice to finally start seeing these signs.
Beautiful countryside. Less mountains and more farmland.
We were very thankful to not be in this situation.
We arrived at the Yellowstone campground around 5:00 pm. I had suddenly developed a bad headache. My headaches are usually caused by dehydration or strong weather fronts (big change in pressure). This felt like the weather-kind. So I started gulping water, and then sure enough we heard thunder and the temperature dropped about 15 degrees. It rained a little on and off, but not enough to keep everyone inside.
Matt and the kids played mini golf and tasted fudge at the fudge shop.
We had dinner and got ready for our day in the parks tomorrow.
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