The next couple weeks saw us driving up through the left side of Yellowstone, into Montana, and eventually our former home in Missoula, where we spent a week with Kim and Dave (last pictured with us a year ago in London), visiting with them and other friends and making a variety of changes and refinements to the camper. After that, we drove the Lochsa River, another favorite, eating at the Lochsa Lodge and staying at the Powell campground, and from there took US route 95 through northern Idaho and crossed over into Canada.
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A small stack of firewood in Jackson or Grand Teton
NP will set you back $14.99; evidently cut from a special
grove of billion-dollar trees |
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Jackson has changed so much in the 54 years we've been
visiting it; here, beef aging in the Albertson's, reminiscent of
La Grande Epicerie de Paris |
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| Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chaose |
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X-rated items in the local drug store; curtained, at
least, unlike Walmart |
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| Another sign you're out west |
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"Oh no...another squirrel-sighting!"...en route from Jackson, Gros Ventre,
to Colter Bay |
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| But there were several hundred of the critters |
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| And a serious traffic jam |
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Moving right along, we are now in Yellowstone NP, which we really
like in the winter |
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| Approaching the West Yellowstone entrance to Yellowstone NP |
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Four lanes of traffic, backed up all the way into town: why we like
YNP mostly in the winter |
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We were busy at Kim and Dave's and didn't take many
pix: here, 3 fauns are resting after brunching on Kim's
flowers |
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| Hector Protector at a Missoula Walmart |
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| At Lochsa Lodge |
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| On the Lochsa, which we rafter with Rebecca and Rachel in 1996 |
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| Camping at Powell |
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The drive down the river was all rain and clouds, but still enjoyable;
one of our favorite drives |
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| Bird city in darkest Idaho |
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In our travels we have seen boot fences and bra fences and toilet walls, but this
is our our first bird-house fence
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| Parting thought from Idaho |
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