Hello Friends! Here is an update from our travels!
First stop was Mount St. Helens (very cool to see the blow and what has happened since the 80s). It was also our first night camping at a wonderful little campground called Beaver Bay (hehe). Next we were off to Cannon Beach OR (beautiful beach, huge haystacks). Jess got to skim board and Jo got a little time in the sun. We continued on to John Day Fossil Beds in central Oregon (crazy fossils, blue/red lava hills). We hiked into a blue natural amphitheater and spent many ridiculous minutes trying to get the two of us in a picture while balancing the camera on signs and lava formations. Next, we swung by Craters of the Moon in Idaho. (ridiculous landscape of hardened lava flow and super cool lava tubes that you can crawl down into with headlamps). Onwards to Jackson! This is a cute town with a western flair and antler archways. From here we headed up through the Grand Tetons (stopping to take some pics and look for animals). We continued on to Yellowstone which was to be our home for the next two nights. Yellowstone was amazing! We saw bison, antelope, elk, deer, A BEAR, osprey, and lots of ground squirrels and chipmunks. Oh yeah, we also saw Old Faithful and some other cool lava/natural formations (did you know that Yellowstone is one huge super volcano?) We are currently in Bozeman (well just outside it in the hills in a sweet “cabin”) which will be our home for the next week. Today we got to go off-roading near Cat’s house (my brother’s fiancee) and chase cows and see creepy murder houses and get attacked by grasshoppers!
Besides some minor car trouble (my turbo engine stopped working so going up a hill at 20 mph is pushing it…which is hard needless to say when you are crossing many passes. Ex. Teton pass, 10% grade, us traveling up it with flashers on trying to maintain 15 mph.), weather (huge wind/rain storm in Cannon beach the first day), and scheduling trouble (we thought we were a day ahead of schedule but we were not…the road does weird things to you…) things are going smoothly!
Until next time!
Jess and Jo
