7/13 – Saturday – starting home

This morning I was awakened by the alarm clock in the room at 6am. That was fine, but I didn’t set THAT alarm, I set my phone for 6:30. What a surprise. Well, I was up, so may as well get moving.

Which we did. We really didn’t have much repacking to do, so we just got ourselves travel ready and went to the dining room for our included breakfast. And the breakfast was excellent. Julie had to send the first eggs Benedict back for goopiness, but the next try was excellent. We left the dining room very well satisfied.

And we rather quickly got packed up, loaded into the car and gassed. Then we started up the hill. BearTooth Pass that is. We have ridden BearTooth many times, so it isn’t a surprise exactly, but it is just an incredible road with unbelievable views.

I’m not going to try and describe all of the wonderful things we saw today. Mother Nature at her finest. If there were a God it should be proud. The weather was perfect, the temperature, the sky, the clouds, everything. After BearTooth pass it was back down, through Cooke City and into Yellowstone, where the wonderment just continued. And added in were animals. Many, many Bison. An elk. A bear.

Lots of very slow tourists. And more natural beauty than should be present on this earth. It was a slow drive, as expected, but once again it was simply amazing. I will never tire of Yellowstone, or the Grand Canyon, or any of the fantastic natural places I have been.

And after Yellowstone we went directly into Grand Teton NP, which is more of the same. I love those Teton’s and all of the beauty that surrounds them.

Then through Jackson Hole and down to Afton, WY. There were many parts of this ride that were wonderful as well.

In Afton we easily found our AirBnB – Afton is a small place, but growing. We got a little settled in and went out to find dinner. Today was our longest drive of the trip – a little over 8 hours – and we were beat and hungry. We found a steakhouse – probably the premier eating spot in town – and had a very nice meal which I topped with a Hot Fudge Sunday. Um. Um. Good. Stuffed (again)

And that brings us back here to the AirBnB – we just finished a nice talk with Wendy and Alan, and now we have brought our journals up to date.

Goodnight.