From West Yellowstone

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Hello from West Yellowstone,
Yes, we made it through the Teton National Park and Yellowstone to West Yellowstone, Montana. We did stop at the Visitor’s Center in the Tetons to get my Passport book stamped and the new visitor’s center had great displays where you can feel all the fur of the various animals in the parks. That was pretty cool. Of course, Lucy and I had bought a really neat vest with fur and we thought it was fake fur. It didn’t look like any of those animals’ fur, thank goodness.
Anyway we were planning on staying at the Grizzly Bear RV Park, which is really nice and where we have stayed before. But it was full so we were sent to the Rustic RV Park and let me tell you it’s very rustic. We are staying in an alley (Paul here, it is a very short alley Hwy 20 in front of us and Gibbon street behind us and we fill it up end to end) with mobile homes right beside us. At least we could put our slides out and we do have TV cable. We are staying just for the night than will move back to the Grizzly Bear park for the next 3 days.
(Paul here, for anyone who cares, the truck is Great! The new transmission is very nice. Driving through Yellowstone Park we crossed the Continental Divide 3 times. We made the same drive with our old truck and it was not hard but this time was much nicer, although the GMC (stands for great mountain climber according to Steve) stayed with us all the way. Billy, thanks, the plastic sheeting works good, I did get a little water under it but that was my fault as it was a pretty sloppy job putting it on the first time, a two man job I think.)
From the West Yellowstone Neils,
Paul and Jackie