Today, we sightsee! Hit the local bike shop, a little bitty thing that’s also a coffee shop, and get a trail map. Not a lot of trails, but there are some, and we’ll hit them tomorrow.

Today, we go to Yellowstone National Park, to do the South Loop. We leave mid-morning, thinking it gives us plenty of time, after all, it’s only about a hundred miles, or so. “A three hour tour, a three hour tour…”

Things seem to NEVER go according to plan for us, and today is no exception. We start on the south loop, go see Old Faithful, wait for him to go off … last minute, the wind shifted and picked up, though luckily not in our direction! People to our right got a bit of a damper put on their party, but the rest of us had a good time! Here is OF in all his majesty, such as it was:

ARGH!!!!!!

I HATE KOA    I HATE KOA    I HATE KOA

I’ve been working on this post for two hours now!!!!!

“Oh, we have WiFi!!!”

NO, YOU DON’T.      Not WORKING WiFi, anyway.

THIS is why I’m three days behind on this blog. It takes hours just to upload the tiny photos I post. Even the text updates take forever. CONSTANT time-outs. EVERY KOA has had issues, but THIS ONE (West Yellowstone) is THE WORST!!!

Ok, rant over, for now. Started this at 8:)0 this evening, it’s now 11:00, and working ok. Here’s Old Faithful (kind of ironic …):

Hard to get a sense of scale. Wasn’t very impressive, but I blame the wind.

Of course, as we got further down the road, we thought – hey, maybe we should go to Grand Teton! It’s “just down the road” … then maybe head over to Driggs, ID, since it’s supposed to be some killer riding in that area … it’s “just down the road” as well. Ok, found no bike shop in Driggs, but saw one in Victor and stopped in. Very helpful guy there, pointed us to some local trails and sold us a map, also pointed us to a BBQ place, Big Hole BBQ. Had not had lunch, so that was quite welcome! At last, we headed for home – but first, into this:

Yes. It’s rain. Again.

We get home late, and pretty much just slug off to bed.