Pleasantly Surprised

Between winter storms we loaded and planned our route south from Bear Lake, Idaho.  With more storms expected we decided to drive south on a smaller road which cut back into Wyoming, near Bear River.  We were very happy we did because we were pleasantly surprised, again in our detour.



Although we had just spent several days in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, we had seen no moose.  On this day, galloping through a snow storm was a family of moose beside a long stretch of highway in southwest Wyoming.  Sorry if the photo is grainy, I still had to share. 

Snaking through back roads is always a joy are we were pleasantly surprised.  

Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons

Some of you have been waiting for this post a long time.  It's finally here.  We have learned the best time of the year to go to the national parks is the week or two weeks before parks close for winter and we lucked out timing our trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons for mid to late September 2017.

Our campground was nearly empty.  We had three days before they closed for the season.  Everything in the tourist shop was on sale and the weather was beautiful, cool and dry when we checked in.  We detached the Jeep and set up quickly. We were excited to go out exploring right away and weren't disappointed.

Elk

geysers

bubbling blood red mud

more elk

waterfalls and rivers

lakes with steaming geysers

silver-back grizzly

Old Faithful

showing off

rainbow geysers

steamy boardways

bison

ravens the same size as Frances

birds foraging for winter

lots of developed trails

All that before the snow during our departure!