Jacqueline’s Jaunts

The drive was horrible. The winds were crazy. I thought we were going to be blown off the road a few times. We crossed into North Dakota at 11:00 AM. Not long after, we saw a pronghorn standing all by its lonesome. Probably trying to stay on the ground and not be blown away. We crossed over the Yellowstone River a few times. Nothing but flat plains.  Once off the Highway and getting into the campground was a challenge due to construction.  A new hotel, Hotel 1883, is being built, and it looks like the entrance road is the same as the campground’s. Somewhat confusing since there are no street signs. Anyway...we made it.  The  Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library  is opening in Medora on July 4th. Just in time for our country’s 250 th celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Medora is going to be crazy. I would love to come back here someday and see it. The library will have a living roof of grasses and native plants collected by volunteers from the...

  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...