Montana, Wyoming

I woke up at 3AM today, pondering and receiving some good inspiration on where to go with our road trip!   The good news for Joey and for me (as I’m equally tired and need to fully recoup from this long-week), is that the plan is to make our way back home for some time.   I’ve gone back and forth as to just be done; move forward; adjust plans for later this fall; adjust plans for later next year; adjust plans for years from now… thinking of ALL possibilities is starting to drive me crazy and has led me to just focus on the now and the next week.   So for NOW, the plan is to work our way back home… closest National Park that we haven’t visited between POINT A (our current location) and POINT B (home sweet home in beautiful Heber Valley) is Yellowstone National Park!

By about 5:30, I came to the conclusion that we would visit Yellowstone then Tetons, then if we’re not tired or bored, stop in Idaho Falls to visit the Idaho Falls Temple and, if they are open, do some ordinance work for those who have passed on.

We left Whitefish pretty early, I took the first leg and drove a good 3 plus hours to a cool place just outside of Missoula, Montana where the old State Prison and new State Prison reside.  They had a cool car museum next to the Prison tour (yes, we toured a prison, just like Alcatraz!) which was a nice break in the day.

So glad to have a Fiat after seeing how American’s would Road Trip in the past!

We arrived West Yellowstone late afternoon and ventured into the park to see the sun set and catch the famous Old Faithful.   Highlight of the day, wading in the river next to a live hot pot that was feeding super-hot water into the river.   It felt like being in a hot tub and was good to soak my tired feet.   I told joey he should come dip his feet and being downwind from the hot-pot, the nice sulfur smell sent him running!   Good times for sure.

Old Faithful still has what it takes!

Natural Hot Tub on the Madison River in Yellowstone