This was our first day without a fix time in the morning; I stayed in my sleeping bag until 09:30 and got started slowly. After that I joined the queue to get laundry done.
In the afternoon, once we were all back to clean clothing, Kelly drove us over to Jackson for an afternoon of ice cream, shopping, tea and exploration.
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We continued South from Yellowstone – straight into Grand Teton NP. Under normal circumstances we would have been greeted by the Grand Tetons staight away – however due to a nearby wildfire the whole area was covered in smoke and … Continue reading
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We had a full day to explore the highlights of Yellowstone and to work on our Junior Ranger books. We started in the morning – after a pretty cold night at around -7 ° C – and made it to … Continue reading
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We continued South, heading for Yellowstone NP. We entered Yellowstone NP in the North, making our way to the Albright Visitor Center in Wyoming. After lunch we crossed the state border back into Montana for a walk to a swim … Continue reading
Before we left the ranch again, we had a look into the taxidermy showroom, happy to see that no one of us had made it to the wall – and taking the opportunity to get a group picture with a grizzly.
We left Glacier NP after a short stop at the visitor center, now heading South for 460 km to the Iron Wheel Guest Ranch near Whitehall, MT.
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Another driving day to reach our next main destination – Glacier NP. As we were on a commercial vehicle, we could not use the short-cut through the park via Going to the Sun Road and instead had to detour around … Continue reading
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A long driving day was ahead of us, making a distance of around 600 km. We left Ellensburg, WA in the morning and hit the interstate, passed through the Idaho panhandle to get into Missoula, MT in the evening. On … Continue reading
The tour started in the early morning; Kelly our tour leader picked us (a total of eight from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Germany) up at the airport and we were heading South – with the first destination closeby -Mt. Rainier National Park.
We got into the park – after stops at a supermarket, a REI (outdoor shop), a liquor store and a gas station – around lunch time. We did check out the visitor center, did a walk nearby to then move on to a trailhead for a short hike – before continuing to Ellensburg (WA), where we stayed for the night.
I flew up from San Francisco to Seattle, arrived there around midday.After dumping my luggage in the hotel (literally on the other side of the street from Seattle Tacoma Airport) I made my way by commuter train into town. Here I changed to the monorail – a left-over of the 1962 world fair, built to move the masses from downtown to the Space Needle – now also my destination.
Taking the monorail had a Jetson feeling … back from the atomic age, with endless and risk-free (remember … duck and cover) energy for everyone … and arriving at the Space Needle kind of confirmed that feeling … amazing – considering that this is how they – 50 years back – pictured us living today.
After coming down again from the Space Needle I visited the nearby Science Fiction and Music museum (EMP … Experience Music Project) before making my way back to downtown (for a tea at Starbucks in the city where Starbucks actually got started) and – later on – the shores of Elliott Bay.
