Second installment of the catchup.
Saturday, July 6th - we said a fond farewell to the Denver area and started a six hour trek to see Mt. Rushmore. The trip to the National Park was pretty uneventful and we got to Mt. Rushmore in good time. It's really hard to believe that men carved the faces into the mountain. The exhibition of how it was done was really amazing . I'm so glad that we went and know that we can check it off our "bucket list". Lynn took the wheel for the first stretch of the drive to Riverton, WY our stay for the night. While driving you could see a huge, yet beautiful lightening storm in the distance. Guess what? She got stuck driving through this storm that rivaled the tropical storm we once experienced in Florida. At one point the car was shaking so badly that I thought I saw Dorothy and Toto blow by. We finally drove, very slowly and deliberately out of the storm and made our way to Riverton, by midnight.
Sunday, July 7th - We left Riverton early, following meeting a fellow Miata owner at the local Mickey D's. Tody we would experience one of the most breathtaking scenes we've ever seen, the Grand Tetons. The drive through the Grand Tetons was one of those real "WOW" moments of your life. Pictures are nice but don't do it justice. Our plan to just drive through them was brought to a halt once we got there. This is definitely a place we could go back to. But we needed to move forward, continuing north to Yellowstone National Park. We finally found a parking space near the area where Old Faithful is located. It erupts ever 92 minutes, and again, the luck of Tom Herrold prevailed. We were at the site for less than ten minutes and "there she blows". It was quite a sight to see and the hundreds of people from every around the world there to see this event was truly amazing. We then moved on through the western exit from Yellowstone and saw three female mooses, quite rare from what we hear. We drove westward to Missoula, Montana. There we met up with Lynn's cousin, Amy Serfass, who lives in Missoula. We had dinner at a wonderful brew pub and met Amy's friend, Paul, and her son Ian's girlfriend. We had a great evening with them catching up about family. Thanks to Amy for setting up this wonderful time. Tomorrow on to Seattle.
the trip sounds awesome .. we were a little worried when you stopped posting blogs...we were hoping you weren't captured by a band of Apaches as you rounded up the wagon train...I wasn't that worried as I knew Norm would negotiate his way out of it and would trade some of his LPGA gear for freedom and passage to the Northwest....have fun!
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