Day 4

   More sunshine this morning. NO more rain. Up early and on our way to Old Faithful. Got there just in time to see the geyser erupt. Every 92 minutes. Walked thru the old lodges and saw inside an authentic room in the lodge built in 1903. It would have been perfect, but we had to carry  on our trip. Only $98.00/ night. Next we stopped for beers at a waterfall and watched a herd of Bison on the highway stopping oncoming traffic for over 3 miles. Glad we were riding north. A male Bison looked at us way to close up and began walking our way. I freaked and Mike drove on the opposite side of a cow bison to separate us from the mad bull.  We thought for sure we were done.  Next we rode on over to Canyon Village again and north up the east side of the park. We stopped again for supper at the Roosevelt Lodge for Elk steak and Pheasent Linguine.  Mike sat in Teddys rocking chair on the front porch.  We saw a grizzly bear and hundreds of Bison on our trip. It is Mikes night to get us a camp site, so guess what we are staying in a cute little cabin in Silver City as there are no available campsites anywhere. Well the cabin has a cute name, THE LOVE SHACK. lol We have our own kitchen, bath, and bbq. We are 30 yards from a raging river and have a back deck. The beers are awesome and a firepit outside our back door set off the evening. All we need is a grizzly bear on our deck in the morning.

“The Love Shack”

Day 3

Well after a full night of rain and a wet tent, today started out interesting as Mike woke up with his eye swollen, reddened and draining. Girls, I thought I should take his advice and just let him suffer ( like he said to do with Fluffy ), but I gave in and took him to the doctor. It probably cost more than it did to take Fluffy to the vet.lol He got some antibiotics for an eye infection, only put us 2 hours behind schedule. Oh yeah we are on holidays and have no schedule. I think he just has sympathy pains for the kitty. Well we were on the highway by 11:00. First we headed toward Yellowstone National Park stopping at Livingstone then carried on to Gardiner and on into the park. We rode into Mammoth Hot Springs and over to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Amazing scenery!!! On our way to Bridge Bay, we drove past the Mud Pots and Dragons Mouth. We also had a great day with wildlife, spotting a couple wolves, a massive grizzly bear,several elk and of course hundreds of Buffalo. We are sitting at camp around the fire now and had hot dogs for supper as we waited too late to go eat and all the restauants are closed. Beautiful day, warm and no rain!!!

Day Two

Well…its started off a night in the tent in the rain.  Don’t know what time it started but I had to get up on put the seat cover on the bike. Clear skies this morning though. 28 degrees today. Continued on south thru Browning and on to Augusta. Stopped for some beers in a cute little bar in  Augusta. Due to road construction, we travelled thru Butte and on to Bozeman on  a  real scenic highway. We past by Lewis and Clark Caverns, but a bad storm was chasing us so we couldnt stop. Drove thru some downpour of rain for a few miles and had supper to wait for it to quit. We got the tent up just in time and now we are settled for the night with it raining. We will decide in the morning if we should have got a hotel room. lol we are still dry right now.  

Day One - Montana

Day 1- Left hom e around 1:00. Drove down highway 2 thru Calgary, Nanton, Fort Macleod, and on to the US border crossing of Port of Peigan. Our first night we are camping at St,Marys. Johnsons of St. Marys campground. Arrived early so decided to drive the Going to the Sun Road. Wow, it was spectacular. Opened just yesterday, 12 ft snow drifts lined the road near the summit. Waterfalls everywhere and the fresh smell of pine and wild flowers made the trip unbelievable. Now we are having supper and drinks in a neat little lodge at St. Marys then going back to our camp for a fire. Excellent first day, weather is warm.

Ahhh just four more hours of work

Yes that's right just 4 more hours of work! Joanne has tomorrow off but I have to go in for 4 hours in the morning. I know that it sucks but oh well! We haven't even started to pack yet. Were at the movie Toy Story 3 tonight and then we'll go home and get packing! We leave at 1 tomorrow afternoon. Trying to get to Browning, Montana. At least that's were we have a campground spot saved. Hope we make it!

Well…here we are just over a week now!

Well in just over a week the adventure starts once again! Are we ready? Oh yea, sure are!

Below is picture of the Beartooth Pass near the end of June.  Apparently, the highway just opened for the season a week ago.

 

Were going to start our holidays a few days earlier!

Well we have decided to leave for our road trip a few days earlier! We just can't handle work any longer.  WE NEED A BREAK!! This road trip should do that for us, with a little luck!  I received my rain cover for my seat from California and my windshield was shipped from Colorado today.  So that should be here in time.  So that should pretty much make us ready for our vacation.  Now as long as the weather isn’t raining like it has been that the last week.  All should be well!