Day 44

Date:  Tuesday August 18, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: Sheridan Lake Campground

Distance to drive: 500 miles

Hours to drive: 9 hours (our longest drive of the trip)

Destination: Grant Village Campground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Planned activities: drive

Today our girls were spectacular travellers.  We set an alarm for the first time on our trip and we were pulling out of the campsite by 6:30am.  We were dressed in our regular camping attire, shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops.  The rain started to fall before we were out of the campground and it seemed to follow us most of the day.  I sloshed through many puddles while racing into gas stations to get coffee or taking my kids to use the facilities.  Despite the weather and many slower sections of highways with construction, we managed to only add 2 hours and 15 minutes onto our driving time. 

We have already had two up close encounters with bison.  One was walking down the middle of the highway as we drove to our campground and the other was hanging out in the grassy area (with a Park Ranger keeping people at a good distance), next to one of the visitors’ centres where we stopped to go to the bathroom.

We rolled into the campground a bit before 6pm.  We ate dinner in the trailer and spent very little time outside because the temperature was dropping quickly and it was supposed to dip below zero overnight.  Sorry for not letting you pack long underwear Chad.