home on day 58

After 855 km on our last day we enjoyed a swim at nearby Cresent Lake before crossing the Nelway Border at 6 pm. Having covered 18000 km over 58 days, we were ready for some squishy hugs from Kendra. We were 2 days earlier than Kevin and Laura expected, and they wondered who the heck was walking down the driveway when they arrived home Wednesday night. Dinner was a simple affair of tomatoes with tomatoes on the side. Yumm, it is so good to be home again. temperatures hot 33 C today, September 23, 2009. Driving up from Nelway and seeing the sun still shining on the mountain tops and the Salmo River curling through the valley bottom made us feel that we live in one of the most beautiful places on this incredible planet. We are grateful for a safe journey and a loving family

rocks in the Rockies

Got an early morning start on Day 57 with temperatures hovering between -2 and 0C.

Rocks everywhere amazed us. In Newfoundland we sat on 1.2 billion year old rocks and these were 1/2 a million years old. the forces that shaped them !!!

Yellowstone

The forests have been desimated on the eastern entrance to the Park and can be seen in the background of the Yellowstone Lodge. Hundreds of small spouts of steam burble out of the ground and smell of sulphur. We did a drive by of the official big Old Faithful, but did not wait around the 90 minutes until the next scheduled eruption. Instead this mini gyser responded to my proximity. Yellowstone Lake at SteamBoat Point looked vast and beautiful. There were warnings that swimming there would cause death within 3 minutes.......for some reason, George did not feel like testing out that theory. ANother fact we read about later ws that hundreds of people et gorged by buffalos every year, but the ones that we photoed seemed very indifferent to me.

Buffalo in Yellowstone

Stayed in a motel in Buffalo Wyoming. It had been cold and windy the night before, and we awoke to our first hard frost as Buffalo is just downhill from the big mountains.

And sure enough we began to see buffalo

day 56

Crossing the Iowa, South Dakota and Wyoming prairie has been more interesting on Route 80 and route 90 than on Route 2 which we did heading east. All the same, we are excited to see big Yellowsone Mountains immediately ahead of us. Seems they got a touch of snow there yesterday, and from our hotest night last night it turned very quickly with high wind to a cool fall day today.We had to sleep in the comacted trailer last night and the buffeting wind shook me like he Newfoundland ferry ride. So I did not sleep much. Tonight George suggested a motel and we are snugly enjoying all the convienences.

praires and summer heat

This morning it looked like fall in Clear Lake, Iowa, State Park.

This afternoon we hot some crumpled foothills.

And tonight it was, CAROL get this!!!!!!!!!!! 29degrees Celcius. A hot summer evening is upon us and I am sitting outside as the trailer is too hot and we are BBQing chicken. Oh I am glad to have this additional day of summer!

trains and camprounds

I think Angie would make a great album cover.............

Friday night now..
Sitting out in the evening warmth about 100 miles east of Chicago. Carol said "GO SOUTH" for the warmth, and it was 26 C today midafternoon. Managed 755 kilometers today with an early 7:25 am departure from Niagara Falls. Steady traffic all day and lots of toll roads, which the big rigs rumble down. At one point early this morning George just had to go pee and there had been no rest areas for ages, so off the side we pull and the truck and trailer were swaying from the big rig suction as they wizzed by. I couldn't quite figure out what to do with myself. We tried the audio tape of DUNE which has 20 CD's and we figured we were set, but we could not get into the story....... so I tried closing my eyes and 3 times today I fell asleep! Did not take one picture today. We are wondering how to best get by Chicago, but being SAturday morning there would be less commuting going on. There is some Huge US football game here tomorrow and they said we were lucky to get a site, but so far it is quiet. oops there goes the second train. They have extra state Troopers circulating through the campground- KOA again- so it should stay pretty tame- nothing that ear plugs can's handle.


I m looking forward to some more exploration, but likely that won't be until Yellowstone Park in a couple of days.