Goodbye, Tetons

On Friday we left the Buffalo Valley, just outside of Grand Teton National Park, and drove 80 miles north to Yellowstone.

Thunderstorm over Buffalo Valley, west of Moran, Wyo.

We counted ourselves lucky to have called this place home for two weeks. As I have previously alluded, the RV park where we stayed was not a place for Happy Campers. I’ll save the details for Yelp, but if you are ever traveling this way, please mark Grand Teton Park RV Resort off your list.

Yet even this sad, broken-down, over-priced, misrepresented place had its bright spots. For one thing, it introduced us to this amazing valley, which had lots of wildlife and not very many people or much traffic. We found it relaxing to drive out of the busy park each day, and mark my words, I will be back to float the Buffalo Fork River from Turpin Meadow campground to the national park boundary.

The “Resort” also introduced us to lots of interesting people who came and went during the eight days we parked there. And thanks to Rex, of course, we knew most of them, including the early thirties couple with three big dogs, an even bigger kayak, and cutest little pull-behind camper you ever saw. I guessed that they were from California. Rex guessed Austin, and he was right—Hyde Park, specifically.

Rainbow Finds the TI at Grand Teton Park RV Resort, near Moran, Wyo.

We always assumed half of our adventure would be the people we encountered along the way. And as we headed into Yellowstone, we knew we would be encountering lots of people.

For our nine days in one of the country’s most-visited national parks, we will be staying within park boundaries at a place called Fishing Bridge, which is a campground built specifically for hard-sided trailers like ours. We are excited about the convenience of staying in the park, and I am really grateful that Rex took the initiative to make reservations in advance. But we are leery of what we will find in an 380-trailer park in the middle of Yellowstone.

Unfortunately, Fishing Bridge as no cell phone or internet access, so we will be posting only sporadically for the next few days. More as I can….