by J. Dawg | Jun 14, 2013 | National Parks, Western Roadtrip
The only advance reservations I made for this trip were at Moraine Park in Rocky Mountain National Park and at Canyon Village in Yellowstone. It was a good move. Canyon Village is central to the park and is one of five campgrounds (there are 12 in the...
by J. Dawg | Jun 14, 2013 | National Parks, Western Roadtrip
The next stop of the Rocky Mountain Ramble was Yellowstone National Park. Driving north from Grand Teton, its a short 20 miles up the road. I came in at the southern entrance and for the next 22 miles there is not a lot. The scenery is pristine...
by J. Dawg | Jun 11, 2013 | National Parks, Western Roadtrip
The jagged Teton Range sprang up abruptly on the horizon. Very different from the Rocky’s in Colorado. I’ll let the pictures do the talking. The mountains dominate the landscape.I stayed at Colter Bay Village Campground (not the RV park)...
by J. Dawg | Jun 10, 2013 | Western Roadtrip
I said goodbye to Colorado and made my way north to Wyoming. Rocky Mountain National Park had been spectacular and now it was time to more on. Wyoming gave me a new landscape to marvel at. It has pateau’s, mesa’s, and canyons.You see large...
by J. Dawg | Jun 1, 2013 | Kansas, Western Roadtrip
I left Independence a day early due to a another bad weather forecast (more tornado, hail, and severe thunderstorm watches) and I had seen everything I came for. When I left it was pouring. There were blinding downpours all the way to Topeka. It was...
by J. Dawg | May 31, 2013 | Missouri, Western Roadtrip
After spending most of a day visiting the USAF Museum in Dayton, I did a short drive west on I-70 to a truck stop in Spiceland, IN. I quit early so I could take a nap and catch up on some sleep. The Pilot truck stop was just outside of Indianapolis in a fairly rural...