Monday, July 28

(Posted Wednesday evening in Jackson, Wyoming. It’s good to be back online after three days without Internet, cell phone, and TV – but we had a FABULOUS time in Yellowstone. Thankfully we could call our children from our motel room phone at no charge.)

We left Cody early Monday morning so we would have a full day in Yellowstone.

When in Cody I read about Beartooth Scenic Byway, and considered asking Cerwin if we could enter the Northeast Entrance of Yellowstone by going over this road, but thought he would not like going so many miles out of our way. And maybe the beauty was not all that it was cracked up to be.

Then we somehow missed our road, and were going toward Beartooth! God is so good! 🙂

It was then that I told him about what I read in a travel guide. And Cerwin was not disappointed by the extra miles.

We came upon this abandoned mine and wondered about its history, then came to this sign.

We traveled through beautiful Montana scenery as we approached what Charles Kuralt called the most beautiful roadway in America.

We were enjoying the beauty when we noticed an ambulance coming up behind us and of course pulled over so he could pass. Within half a mile we saw why he was on this road. A motorcycle was smashed up against the guardrail and the driver was down over the bank ~ after not making the hairpin turn. (I took this picture after we went up a few more hairpin turns.)

This picture was after another few turns. The accident took away our delight in the scenery for awhile. And I still wonder if the person survived the accident. (We later heard that he did not survive.)

There was a scenic pull off here, and those coming up the mountain talked about the accident.

This chipmunk must be used to being fed, because it came to us looking for food.

One of the ladies in this great group of cyclists asked me to take a group picture with her camera. I took one with my camera as well and promised to put it on my blog. Notice the chipmunk at their feet. 🙂

I kept saying to Cerwin, “How do you capture this beauty? You cannot capture the beauty of this roadway in a photo.”

We went back and forth from Montana to Wyoming several times in our visit to the Yellowstone area.

The highest elevation on Beartooth Pass is 10,947 feet.

Cerwin liked this snowplow on top of the mountain.

Going down the other side.

Notice the road on which we would be traveling.

 Another style snow remover for the high mountain roads.

Yes, it was definitely one of America’s prettiest roadways.

Our delightful brunch stop at Soda Butte Lodge in Cooke City, Montana.

In my next post I will show you pictures of our first day’s visit to Yellowstone.

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It will probably be Friday morning when I post again, because we will spend all day in the air or in airports tomorrow (Thursday).