Wanting to start our time in Idaho as soon as possible, we chose to traverse Yellowstone Nat. Park instead of going around it. We planned on it taking about 3 hours from one gate to the opposite gate with no stops and accounting for summer traffic. It was actually better than we had hoped and it only took 2 hours 15 minutes with only one slow down due to bison near the road (thankfully not ON the road). It’s a beautiful park but there are so many people! We have decided that if we ever want to go there again it will be late August or September when the kids are back in school and vacation times are mostly over.
From West Yellowstone we traveled south on Hwy 20 to one of the first Caribou-Targhee National Forest campgrounds we saw. It’s on the Henry’s Fork River which feeds into the Snake River. We thought we might have a hard time finding an open site but, thankfully, we were wrong. Our next door neighbor is very friendly and she had lots of advice for us since she has been camping here for the past 9 years all by herself. The bad part is that we are in full sun from noon on and on a very busy, dusty road.
Shortly after supper, three men on motorcycles pulled into the site on the other side of us. John got to talking with them and they were from Missouri, St. Louis area. The group is a father and son and son’s friend. The father is 76 and they are traveling down the Continental Divide from Canada to Colorado, camping along the way in tents. We are amazed at their adventure.
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