Day 7 - On the road to Yellowstone

We travelled all day Thursday from Medora, ND to our destination of Yellowstone National Park. The weather was quite nice and in Montana, it warmed up to 78. Our route took us over to Billings, Montana and then down Hwy 212 to Red Lodge. At Red Lodge, we got on the Beartooth Hwy into Yellowstone.

Along the Beartooth, the road climbed the Beartooth Pass where we made it to almost 11,000 feet altitude. There were some very tight hairpin turns for the Silver Twinky.

This was a long drive -- over 100 miles, so it took most of the afternoon. When we got to the Park entrance, we still had 64 miles to drive inside to Fishing Bridge. We tried to make good time (speed limit 45), but we ran into a Bison Jam on the road and got held up for 20 minutes while the herd decided to take the afternoon crossing the road. One guy found the Twinky fascinating and had to come over to sniff the tires. Hope they passed his inspection!

It seems every RV in the park was caught in the bison jam, since we all showed up at the campground at the same time. Took about 30 minutes to get checked in, then ran into a guy in a Class A in our lane who couldn't get his towed car unhitched. That was anther 20 minutes. By the time we got to our site, we didn't have time to go out to the Lodge for dinner, so Ann Sue made dinner in the trailer.

Fishing Bridge has water and sewer hookups, but no electricity, so we ran on propane and batteries. Dinner was a frozen prepackaged meal by PF Chang -- highly recommended. Almost as good as the version in the restaurant.

Bailey was exhausted, and after dinner was already sawing logs. We went to bed by 9:30 since there wasn't much to do. No electricity, to TV, no Internet. We wanted to conserve battery juice, so we just turned off the lights and went to bed.

There is no cell service here, so I am typing this on my iPad for later posting.