Jacqueline’s Jaunts

We left this morning at 9:45 AM after going to the office to pick up our free hats. They have a deal that if you give them a five-star review, you get a free hat. Haha, sounds like extortion, but we would have given them a five-star review anyway. The park is awesome and close to the things we wanted to see.  I will, again, mention that the bridge we had to take from the Washington side to the Oregon side is a nightmare. It is very narrow, and if you're wider than 9 feet, it is not recommended. It’s OK until you meet a semi-truck. People with cars will stop on the bridge to let the semis pass. We had to do that but ended up hitting Julie’s lug nut wheel caps on the right side. We thought we hit the side of the RV and stopped at the first pull-out we could to investigate. Thank goodness it wasn’t the side, but only the decorative wheel lug nut covers, which saved the paint from getting scraped. Whew...how lucky that was. We loved the campsite, but because of that bridge, we won’t be...

  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...