After leaving Lakeview, we were pretty much off the grid for a few days. We travelled nearly 400 miles to Boise, ID; decided to get a room. Not much excitement while driving, sage brush and hills was about the extent of it. The next day's travels across Idaho on Interstate 84, wasn't that much more exciting than across Oregon. We did stop at a rest stop that had some info signs on the Oregon Trail, and viewed a small depression in the landscape marked Wagon Wheel Ruts. As we got closer to Twin Falls, we began to see more farming and irrigation. We passed field after field of onions, then later potatoes. As we pulled into Twin Falls, we had heard about a KOA and set out to find it. As we were winding our way through the city, I spotted an Army Surplus store. The place was huge! Dolly didn't want to go in, but I had never seen so much "stuff" at one place in my life. I bought a few things and was in the store about an hour and a half.
 We finally ended up at a campground that formerly was a KOA and got settled in for the night . Again, nothing interesting happened so we didn't update the blog.
 After leaving Twin Falls we headed northeast through the remainder of Idaho and crossed the border into Montana. This was the first time Dolly had been in Montana, and we began seeing snow covered peaks and deep blue lakes. Beautiful traveling scenery. We stopped in a small town and visited a couple of shops then headed for the northern access gate to Yellowstone, breezed through the $25 entrance fee and gate (remember - we have the "America The Beautiful" pass which lets us in for free). We stopped for a quick photo at the Yellowstone entrance sign and got our pic taken by a nice couple from Georgia. We then headed for Old Faithful. Along the way we stopped at several geyser fields and walked down a plank walkway near several deep blue pools of heated water and subterranean chemicals (it stinks). 
 We arrived and parked in a huge lot with remainders of huge piles of snow, then followed the signs to the geyser. Evidently Old Faithful had "blown" a few minutes before we showed up, so we had a wait of about and hour and a half . I filled the time with going to the Old Faithful Photo Shop, where they had excellent photos of the famous geyser, a display on the first photographer to take pictures of Old Faithful, but mostly they wanted you to join their platinum club and receive OF trinkets or just plain empty your pockets of low denomination bills and change. A bit later I took some photos of the people getting ready for OF and a few other things that caught my eye.
 About three minutes before the Old Faithful geyser erupted there started to be some five to 10 feet white spouts of super heated water, then up she went. It lasted for about five minutes, total, then went back to what it looked like when we arrived. Honestly, I guess I expected more, but, that was probably because of all the hype I had heard and other photos I had seen over the years.
 After Old Faithful, we got back onto the highway and headed south toward Jackson Lake where we camped at Colter Bay. We arrived in the late afternoon and wasn't sure we would find a spot, but we did and were assigned a site . And we received our "Bear Warning" speech. Grizzly and Black Bears inhabit the region and each camper is warned what to do if you come across one. One fellow camper we talked with said he had seen bear on three different occasions within a mile or two of where we were staying. The lady that checked us in to the campground had her bottle of "Bear Spray" which is recommended if you're out tromping the woods. And, each campsite has a large metal box that is "Bear Proof" to put anything that bears might like when you are away from your campsite - or overnight. Food, garbage, cookstoves, toiletries and even water are required to be locked up. If the Feds come by your site and the above mentioned articles are found in the open, you are liable to be fined. We didn't test their law. All of this did nothing to calm Dolly's nerves about visits from bears. But we didn't see any...not one.
 We followed a trail from our campsite down to Jackson Lake - it was about a 4-minute walk down a short hill and through various kinds of spruce and pine trees. Then, there before us, and across the lake were the famed Grand Tetons. Because our campsite is on the east side of the Teton Peaks, we knew the next morning would be the best for photos. We gave the cameras a workout anyway. We then retired back to our campsite, got ready for bed and turned in just after dark. Our camping neighbors had four large rented RV vehicles with four large families who gathered at one of the sites and had a pretty good party . They didn't get carried away, but they were having a good time. The next morning I found out they were all from Germany, I believe the Bremen area (thats what a hand-made sign said in one of the RV rear windows).
 When we woke up, the temperature was hovering around the mid 30's so we heated some water on the grill and used some recently purchased "tea bag" coffee. It was OK, but nothing like the strong French Roast we brew in our small one-cupper when we have electricity. 
 Our goal was to take photographs of the Grand Tetons with early morning sun where the sun angle would be the best for photos. We lucked out, the skies were blue with just a few hints of white puffy clouds. It was a sight to behold - and remember for the rest of our lives. 
 Like so many other places we have been to - and photographed, its impossible to capture the true beauty of a place like this. If you haven't been there, its a MUST for your "bucket list." And that's no shit.
We got back to our campsite, quickly packed up and were on the road by 7:30 . We continued south and pulled over whenever we found something that we thought would make a good photo. Again, the views were breathtaking. We were so fortunate to be able to photograph this area with a nice bright sun and very little wind. We continued south until we ran out of Tetons then headed back northeast, through the Rocky Mountains and ended up this afternoon in a small town in Dubois, Wyoming. We are camping at a KOA just a stone's throw away from the Wind River, which is full and right on flood stage. We are keeping our eye out on the weather and ready to pack up if we get much of a rain. Thats it for today- more tomorrow if we land in a place that has electricity and wifi. Thanks for reading...and enjoy the photos!

Love ya,

Jan, Dolly and Chi Chi