Jacqueline’s Jaunts

The iconic Morman Barn We left around 9:00 AM. I packed a cooler with sandwiches and fruit for lunch. We had to wind through town a bit to get to the highway into the park. Before we left home (Oregon), I purchased an app called  GuideAlong . The app is free, but you have to pay for tours of different National Parks. It’s a GPS-based audio tour app that acts like a personal guide in your car. It plays location-triggered stories, history, and travel tips as you drive. I purchased the tour for Grand Teton and Yellowstone. It’s a package. I think I paid around $25.00, and it was the best $25.00 I have spent for something like this. If you're traveling to National Parks, I highly recommend this app. It was great. We followed the map as we drove around the 45-mile loop.  By following GuideAlong, we saw everything in the park we wanted to see: Mormon Row, Chapel of the Transfiguration, Menors Ferry Historic District, Numerous views of the Tetons, Passport Stamps at Jenny Lake V...

  This trip is mainly to visit Yellowstone National Park. It’s been on my bucket list. We will be visiting five National Parks: Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Little Bighorn Battlefield, Theodore Roosevelt, Glacier, and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The states we will travel through are Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Our planned route is below. We left on Friday at 11:30 AM, an hour and a half after our plan. We made it to Ryan and Amanda’s by 3:45 PM. Just in enough time to park the RV, grab our jackets, and jump in Ryan’s truck to head to La Pine for Tucker’s Little League game. We knew it was going to be tight time-wise, but we made it. The game started with Tucker’s team scoring five runs in the first few innings. The game was tied in the fifth inning. In the next-to-last inning, the other team pulled ahead by one. His team had one last chance at bat to score the tying run, but it did not happen. Tucker had one hit, one strikeout, and an inf...