June 23-24, 2013
Little addendum to the June 22nd blog
entry. Since we had not been out to eat
in a while, we decided to treat ourselves to a meal in the town of Ennis. We went to the Byrnee’s Sports Bar. Had a good meal and Jerry and I had a
beer. I had a Lewis and Clark Ale and
Jerry had a Scottish something. Little
darker. Other beers we have sampled include
Moose Drool and Trout Slayer. All
good. Of
course we have our share of Fat Tires, Shock Top, and Hallo (?). The Big Sky Brewery does ok. Our waitress
was a 17 year veteran of the Air Force.
Just one of the interesting people we have met. She said it will not be crowded in the
restaurant on Saturday because there were three weddings in the town of
800. On our walk through town we saw a
guy carrying a snake skin into a saloon.
Not sure what was going on there.
We went back to RV campsite and hung out until beddy bye time. RV Park had great facilities and showers
again.
Got up early and left about 6:10 today, the 23rd. Might be our coldest morning. My hands were so cold, I couldn’t get both hearing aids
in. Got about 5 miles out of Ennis and
Jeff got his first flat tire, not a Fat Tire which I would rather have had.
I am the novice/princess, and my
two cohorts changed my tire. I will have to buy a round for them. Got back on our way riding into a huge
headwind. Felt like we were peddling in
mud. We continued in spite of it and fortunately,
Mr. Sun appeared to make things warm. If
you can imagine riding with beautiful
mountain ranges on either side of us, that’s what we had. Hard to describe how cool it is. Our trail then took along this beautiful mountain
stream. Again words cannot do it
justice. We got to a rest stop where the
sign said, “Water unsafe—high fluoride levels”.
Jack did not read sign and got some of the water. But I don’t think he ever drank any of
it. I guess we’ll find out later. Jerry said that there was a café about nine
miles ahead. He said he was going to take
his time and that Jack and I should go ahead.
We did and stopped at the café for coffee and pancakes. Coffee came and was tasty as usual. Haven’t had a bad beer or bad cup of coffee
yet. Pancakes came to the table. I ordered two and Jack ordered one. Well, King Kong couldn’t have eaten both of these
pancakes. At least half to ¾ inches thick and 12 inches in
diameter. The guy at the register said
he wishes he had a camera to capture the look on my face when I saw them. And people who know me can appreciate
that. Anyway, I ate one and took the
other with me to eat later. They did have a deal that if you could eat three of them, they paid for
them. I told them they were lucky. That if I didn’t have 40 more miles ahead of
me, I would accept that challenge.
Anyway, still no Jerry. We kept
on, beginning to worry about Jerry, but
no way to contact him with no cell phone service. We kept on heading for West Yellowstone where
we thought maybe we could get hold of Sue to go back and make sure he was
ok. I’m sure you know how this
ended. We pull up into West Yellowstone
and guess who we see standing in line to get coffee at a coffee shop? The prototypical story of the Tortoise and
the Hare.
Sue secured us a campsite in the Madison campground and
made us a deeeellicious dinner. Then we
headed out to find ice cream and see some aminals. We found neither, but we did see several
places of hot springs. They are very numerous
in this part of the park. Back to the
campsite and off to bed. Short ride
tomorrow, about 30 miles down the road
to another campsite at Grant.
Monday morning, Jack got up early to ride his bike into
town to pick up a package he sent himself.
He had been following it for some
time now . It was supposed to be
at the post office today. He was going
to meet us later. Jerry and I moved on
toward Grant after sleeping to almost 6:30.
Jerry made some oat meal and hot chocolate and off we went. We met Sue at the café at Old Faithful. We had coffee, Sue and Jerry had some breakfast, and I had an ice cream sammich. Then we
checked out the Yellowstone Lodge which those of you that have seen it
know what a landmark it is. We also were
just in time to see Old Faithful do his/her thing. Just like I remembered back in 1977 when I
was here last. Jerry and I left to head
for Grant to meet Sue. We crossed the Continental Divide twice on
our way. Go figure. At the second Divide we witnessed two
drive-by shootings. Not the gun type but
the camera type. Tourists pulling up to the sign and taking a
picture out of the window.
Nice, pretty easy, and most important of all, safe ride
today. Landed in Grant where Sue has
secured a campsite. Big treat
tonight—showers, for $3.71.
Jeff, Jerry, Jack and Sue
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