A few days after we returned home, they had heavy snowfall in some of the areas we had just left. The Weather Channel reported snowfall in the following areas:
Yellowstone National Park...9 inches
Casper, WY...16.2 inches
Deadwood, SD...48 inches..... yes...48 inches. I just could not imagine.
Rapid City, SD...23.1 inches
They are now forecasting snow again in those same places beginning tonight in Yellowstone. I will be following the weather broadcasts to see how much they get this time.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
October 1, 2013.. Tonight we are only 150 miles from home. We had a good driving day today and are at Renfro Valley, KY now.
I thought it would be a good idea to mention some tidbits about our trip. Some are interesting and some are probably not.
We will have driven about 5400 miles on this trip by the time we get home.
We had warmer temperatures than we expected everywhere we were on this trip. Even the cold nights in Yellowstone were warmer than when we were last there and it was later in the season this time. On our way west, we had temperatures of 95 degrees across IL, IA and SD.
The lowest diesel fuel price we paid was 3.68/gal and the highest was 4.05. The 4.05 was only for one purchase. Using Gas Buddy saved us money on most fuel stops.
We saw lots of vehicles with Alaska tags. Many of them were in Yellowstone but we even saw one today in Indiana.
I learned that getting older has advantages too. As I get older, I will be able to hide my own Easter eggs.
It has been a wonderful trip and we are very blessed to be able to take a trip this way. We are very thankful that we were able to take the trip and return safely.
I appreciate the notes and comments from some that gave me encouragement to continue with the blog. Sometimes it was hard to do a posting like when I was running everything on battery power, getting my Internet by using my phone and very tired after a long day of seeing all we could see. Your nice comments made me want to go on.
Tonight we heard on the news that 5 people had been killed on a trail in Colorado. The trail goes to Agnes Vaille Falls and is near Buena Vista, Colorado. We hiked on that trail up to the falls in 2009. The trail is on the road to a ghost town we went to called St Elmo. We were shocked to hear about the people getting killed on that trail by a rock slide on Monday. I looked up the photos I have on this computer that we made on that trip and I am posting some to show you what it looks like where the rock slide occurred.
I thought it would be a good idea to mention some tidbits about our trip. Some are interesting and some are probably not.
We will have driven about 5400 miles on this trip by the time we get home.
We had warmer temperatures than we expected everywhere we were on this trip. Even the cold nights in Yellowstone were warmer than when we were last there and it was later in the season this time. On our way west, we had temperatures of 95 degrees across IL, IA and SD.
The lowest diesel fuel price we paid was 3.68/gal and the highest was 4.05. The 4.05 was only for one purchase. Using Gas Buddy saved us money on most fuel stops.
We saw lots of vehicles with Alaska tags. Many of them were in Yellowstone but we even saw one today in Indiana.
I learned that getting older has advantages too. As I get older, I will be able to hide my own Easter eggs.
It has been a wonderful trip and we are very blessed to be able to take a trip this way. We are very thankful that we were able to take the trip and return safely.
I appreciate the notes and comments from some that gave me encouragement to continue with the blog. Sometimes it was hard to do a posting like when I was running everything on battery power, getting my Internet by using my phone and very tired after a long day of seeing all we could see. Your nice comments made me want to go on.
Tonight we heard on the news that 5 people had been killed on a trail in Colorado. The trail goes to Agnes Vaille Falls and is near Buena Vista, Colorado. We hiked on that trail up to the falls in 2009. The trail is on the road to a ghost town we went to called St Elmo. We were shocked to hear about the people getting killed on that trail by a rock slide on Monday. I looked up the photos I have on this computer that we made on that trip and I am posting some to show you what it looks like where the rock slide occurred.
Agnes Vaille Falls is located up between the two mountains up from the parking lot and on the right of the photo.
Along the trail to the falls
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