Ann and Gary left early this morning – shortly after 6am – to head home. We headed out around 8am. We drove into Yellowstone and stopped at Sylvan Lake for breakfast.We had a beautiful view from our dining room table!
We are still amazed at all of the dead trees. We aren’t sure if this burn area is from 1988 or 2016. The 1988 fire burned almost 794,000 acres and the 2016 fire burned about 21,000 acres!We were able to use the dump station at Bridge Bay and refilled the RV with water. Our journey took us south past the West Thumb geyser area to the south entrance station.
Just south of Yellowstone is the Teton National Park. We could see a herd of bison off in the distance; there were more than we saw the entire time in Yellowstone! The view of Jenny Lake with the mountains to the west is amazing.
Further down the road we stopped for lunch and were treated to more views of the Tetons.
We are so lucky to have such amazing national parks so close to where we live!
Jackson, Wyoming was our gas stop. As we approached town we saw signs saying that masks are mandatory EVERYWHERE in town, but we saw little evidence that anyone was following the rules. After filling we headed south to Big Sandy Reservoir. We both chuckled about the same time because the miles of road construction reminded us of Mexico!We finally arrived at Big Sandy Reservoir and had a three mile road in that was washboard gravel. It made for very slow going. We hoped to go kayaking but the wind was blowing so hard, we could hardly open our back door!
We are camped overlooking the reservoir. There are a couple other campers in the area, but it is very quiet. This is a free campground and even offers picnic tables and restrooms!
We did find a path we could take down to the beach, but we won’t be taking the kayak out tonight.We have decided we will head home tomorrow and not spend another day. Just before going to bed, we did look out and see clear skies filled with millions of stars. It was a beautiful sight!
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