Yellowstone Natl Park

August and there's still snow on the mountains in Montana

...Well, almost.  It's just across the Yellowstone River from our RV site here at Rocky Mountain RV Park in Gardiner, MT.  We left Priest Lake Monday morning with an overnight stop at Missoula, MT and continuing on today to Gardiner, MT where we'll stay for the next week.  Gardiner is on US 89 and is just outside the north entrance to Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs junction.  The stop at Missoula gave us a chance to restock the trailer and give us a break during the 11 hour ride from Priest Lake to Yellowstone.  We're already missing all those meals that Thom and Mary made, though.  Nice to be pampered!

Missoula was an interesting stop.  We spent the night at Jim & Mary's RV Park just east of Missoula on US 93.  It seems to be a staging area for those headed to Glacier National Park.  Both Glacier and Yellowstone are east of Priest Lake, but we're headed to the Escapees Escapade 2011 in Gillette, WY.  Yellowstone was along the most direct route to Gillette.  So we're back here, again, and hoping to visit the northern sections of Yellowstone that we didn't get to in 2009.  Hopefully, we can get our bikes to Old Faithful, too.  Glacier is on the "to see" list for next year.

More later, David