Waited for a break in the rain to fire up the flat top and make smash burgers! Yum! 🤤🍔
Montgomery Brewing Hop Junkies Pineapple IPA tonight. Very good. Notable pineapple flavor. 🍺
Small but very intense storm coming through. Major thunder cracks. ⚡️⛈
Minneapolis Public Schools phased approach to managing COVID-19.
Mazie’s garden is thriving, and now it has an official placard. She has a real knack for gardening, and seems to enjoy it a lot.
Yellowstone 2020 Index
RV spots: 5
Vehicles rented: 2
Miles driven: 2,721 on the RV
Total cost of gasoline: $774.03
Pictures taken: 1,313
Times dumping tanks: 5
National Parks visited: 3
National Monuments visited: 1
Number of cities visited: 5
Number of fish caught: 4
Number of bears sighted: 1
See the Yellowstone 2020 Collection for all content from this trip.
This is one of the oddest places I’ve had to deal with a hornets nest. 😬
Most terrifying thing about renting the RV? Taking it to the truck wash before returning it and navigating this shockingly small entry! Should have brought a helper. Only a few inches on every side. 😬
Yellowstone Log: Day 13, Thursday
- Long drive home!
- Go through Mankato and have pizza at Dino’s Pizzeria!
- Arrive home 7:00pm. 2 hours to empty out RV, put stuff away, and clean out interior.
- Return the RV tomorrow morning!
Today is our final stretch with a 593 mile drive back to Minneapolis! We’ve had an awesome Yellowstone RV trip! 🙌
Yellowstone Log: Day 12, Wednesday
Weather: Cool morning. Feels like rain.
- Mt. Rushmore
- Crazy horse
- Chuck wagon dinner
Family selfie at Mt. Rushmore!
We pulled into the Palmer Gulch KOA last night and got setup. Checking it out this morning and this is easily the fanciest KOA I’ve seen. They say it’s one of the largest in the country.
Enjoyed a beautiful drive through the Shoshone National Forest today on our way from Jackson, WY to Mt. Rushmore in SD.
Yellowstone Log: Day 11, Tuesday
Weather: Rain! Cool! Rain stopped after first hour or so and then pleasant driving weather
- Breakfast at Persephone.
- Visit Teton Park visitor center, cool looking building.
- Drive to Mount Rushmore KOA.
- First two hours of drive really pretty!
We had delicious takeout burgers from Grazer’s in Newcastle, WY just before entering South Dakota!
Going to be covering over 470 miles today. Leaving Jackson, WY and checking in at Mt. Rushmore KOA tonight. We loved our time in the Tetons! 🛣
It was cloudy tonight but Wyoming Stargazing still got us out to see some cool stuff. Here is the moon tonight from Jackson, WY.
Yellowstone Log: Day 10, Monday
Weather: Clear and Sunny, Warm. Cloudy into the evening.
- Tyler and Mazie met and hung out with Nola and Sebastian.
- Rented bikes from Dornan’s and rode to Jenny Lake.
- Took Jenny Lake Boat and hiked to Hidden Falls.
- Waited in long line for an hour after hike to get boat back and stood with a group of annoying people from California.
- Waded in Jenny Lake to cool down.
- Got Ice Cream treats at gift store.
- Rode bikes back to Dornan’s with a heavy headwind.
- Attempted to stop at visitors center but they were closed.
- Went to Snake River Brewing for dinner.
- Astronomy evening with Wyoming Stargazing. Saw: Jupiter and 3 moons, Saturn and rings, moon, Moon closer, Vega, Arcturus, Mixar and Alco(part of Big Dipper) all three are double stars, ring nebula, Alberio (double Star), Hercules globular cluster, ISS, Owl cluster