Day 5 - Here we go a traveling along...

Day 5 - We're headed to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, 436 miles. This was the hardest RV park to reserve beforehand that was a full hookup. I ended up googling a site rather than getting a recommendation from my GoodSam book. A couple in South Dakota told us that a new park had opened in Yellowstone that had full hook ups - they had camped two days outside the park, waiting for it to open. We decided to take our chances with the one I had reserved. We pretty much decided it was definitely one on the bottom of the like list. First of all, the people weren't all that friendly and we were in the second part at the very back - way far away from the wifi. Everywhere I made reservations, I asked for a pull-through and to be near the bathroom/showers. This one had one but it was in a barn - complete with a sliding barn door, with no handle. This was also the first place we were stopping for two nights.

Some of the scenery as we drove from South Dakota to Wyoming. My boys definitely thought it would be a great place to live - out in the wide open spaces. Alexa didn't think it would do at all and Emily thinks there is no place quite like calling NC home. All along we would see these extra sets of fences. They were so random. Someone took pictures but I haven't quite consolidated all of the pictures into one location yet. Anyway, these random fence panels - we were having dinner with friends that used to live in CA the other night and we started talking about these random fence panels and all random ideas we came up with. He told us it was a snow barrier - to keep the snow off the road. It made so much more sense than the suggestions we were coming up with.

Even though overall, the site was pretty yucky - the view was amazing. This was the view facing our camper - the Grand Tetons.

This was our set up. You can see the "bathroom" aka the barn - over to the left. It was freezing cold and dreary rain. One funny story - this was the first place I had set to do laundry. Ryan and I had driven up to the laundry facility to wash (that's how far in the back we were). We were sitting there waiting, when this man started banging on the back door - me being me, I screamed. Ryan went opened the door and the man told us he was parking his Harley on the other side of the door - for us to please not knock it over. A bit later, another man that had been riding with him, came in and said they had been driving all the way to the other side of Yellowstone but it had started snowing so hard that they closed the road. They had to turn around and drive the two hours back to the other entrance. By that time, they were frozen, out of gas and it was late. It was quite a story to hear all where they had travelled.

Today was the day I had set aside for us to explore the Grand Tetons. Unfortunately, by the time we got to the camp and set up, the fog had descended. It was so amazing watching this huge mountain range just disappear. It was cold and rainy so we didn't do much exploring. We drove around and then went back to our barn.