Today was a rest day from the very start. It was cool last night, and even with the heater set low( too low) it ran quite a bit. I located a propane distributor in Jackson, so before we heard off to the Great Basin National Park, we’ll top off the propane and we’ll be OK with hot water and heat. This trip has mostly been about keeping warm as opposed to needing air conditioning. I’m sure that will change on the return trip home when we’re way south in the warm states. Continue reading
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Teton National Park
June 3, 2014
Today was a rest day from the very start. It was cool last night, and even with the heater set low (too low) it ran quite a bit. I located a propane distributor in Jackson, so before we heard off to the Great Basin National Park, we’ll top off the propane and we’ll be OK with hot water and heat. This trip has mostly been about keeping warm, as opposed to needing air conditioning. I’m sure that will change on the return trip home ,when we’re way south in the warm states. Continue reading
Black Hills to Devil’s Tower
It was a very busy day the day before, but we woke up early again at 6:15, had a cereal breakfast and were on the road by 7:20. The day did not get off to a good start. I was putting away a frying pan from dinner from the night before, and I couldn’t close the damn pot drawer. I burned up almost a half an hour messing around with the drawer, which I was unable to fix, but did manage to close. Continue reading
The Black Hills
We got off to an early start by way of not sleeping in. For some reason, I was up and ready to go at 6 AM, probably because I’m still on East Coast time – vacation mode will do that to you.
We had a great breakfast of Taylor ham, egg and cheese on a hard roll, a New Jersey treat. The hard rolls we found were good, an unexpected surprise. I’m sure that today that we were eating the westernmost Taylor Ham and Egg sandwiches in the United States. Continue reading
The Badlands to Mount Rushmore
We slept later than we wanted, as it was a cool foggy morning. I’d been up around 6 and there was some haze to the west of the campground and I took a picture and closed up the RV. We had left everything open and it was more damp than cool 
As we were leaving, I discovered that the group of men camping next to us were recently commissioned Officers in the US Army, having some fun before reporting to their individual duty stations. One was in Armor, one in Communications and the other was with the Military Police. Fortunately, the MP second Lieutenant was the stockiest of the three, it will suit him. They had some good stories both about their service thus far and their adventure in the Badlands with some rain mixed in. I wasn’t thinking, and didn’t get any of their names. They all were very fine men, and everyone should sleep sounder knowing that they are serving the country. Continue reading