Badlands & Family fun!

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Left Custer State Park and headed towards Yankton where my cousin Lisa vacations. First stop Badlands after our #campgroundschef breakfast.

After leaving Badlands, we headed towards Yankton, SD to meet my aunt and cousins. My shame of the entire trip is that I was rated third at doing donuts (behind my Morgan age 16 and George). It was apparently so bad that it was rated a burnout and not even a donut. #roomfordonutimprovement

More of a good thing: Custer State Park

July 21, 2021July 22, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 4 Comments

We had a rocky start with little sleep, so our first priority was to fix Ringo. Shout out to my vet (Dr Hammonds: aka Wills dad) at Reems Creek who helped solve the Ringo issue over the phone and made our next night a literal dream.

Putting that poop issue behind us, we had so much fun in the the Black Hills we just stayed a second night there. We even got a Campsite with electric and turned on the ac in the T@g-Along.

Our travel tour started back up the Needles Hwy. Right after getting started, we arrived at the first tunnel and found two 18 – 20 foot horse trailers trying to turn around. We snuck through right before their attempts.

Here’s another shot of the smallest tunnel (needles eye)

Needles eye tunnel slow version.

We got to Rushmore and I needed to get fresh with George.

I tried to French him, but he wasn’t willing (his loss).

After Mt Rushmore we continued to our campsite (Legion Lake) via Iron mountain road, which has tunnels that literally frame Mount Rushmore. If you ever go to south dakota I highly recommend Custer park.

Custar State Park. Black hills

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

We left devil’s tower early. We wanted to try some caves. (jewel and wind) but that was a Ringo bust. We got to Custer state park. What a surprise!

Needles eye tunnel, we pulled the mirrors in. 8 feet wide.

Then we headed to sylvan lake, what a lovely surprise.

Big tetons: Day 2

July 18, 2021July 18, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Since Ringo can’t go on the trails, it was just torture sitting around thinking about all the good hikes we couldn’t take. Rather than just sit around in the campsite feeling sorry for ourselves, we decided to take a trip into Jackson Hole and re-provision and check if Jackson Hole still had a brewery. Mission accomplished and another scenic route traveled.

We showered up and we got another fine sunset on Mt. Moran from the campground. While sitting there, a bald eagle flew right in front of us. We both decided it was the closest either of us had seen an eagle in the wild. #cagesDontCount

For those of you concerned, Ringo is still running loose, but #notintheT@g.

Your Tetons are showing

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

We started in Yellowstone so here are the west thumb pics before our ynp departure… And after our Ringo 2 hour squirt timer. If we look exhausted in these pics, well, we are.

The tetons are just amazing. Dogs can’t go on the trails so we just took a scenic drive and took lots of pictures. I’m just going to put lots of pictures up probably without a lot of description because #pictureWorth1000words

I’ve been told Ringo pics are a good sell.

Then from the campsite we went to see the sunset over Mt. Moran.

Late night Ringo

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Woke up very early and got our Yellowstone on. Good thing! We pulled into the nearly empty Old Faithful parking lot at 8 and by 10am, the parking lot was full and we were hitting the road back to campground to switch sites.

While there, Ringo got to see old faithful from afar. And we took turns going into the inn. We visited the geyser basin too. I have lots of pictures of Yellowstone that just can’t convey how weird Yellowstone is. It’s the sounds, the smells the colors, the deep hot bubbling pools of water /mud that you just can’t capture in a picture.

Inside the old faithful inn. This place never ceases to amaze me. It’s like a tree house.

We got back to the campsite and then after lunch drove to the canyon. It was beautiful. We found a trail to the top of the waterfall that was really cool.

Sorry about my finger…

We had dinner and took Ringo for a walk around the Yellowstone Lake. Pretty sure this lake water made him sick. He’s had diarrhea every 2 hours every night since this photo, but at the time I took it, he was just another cute wet dog and we were dog owners without a care in the world.

Sawtooth Mtns Campground: Sunny Gulch

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

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Sawtooth Mtns Campground: Sunny Gulch

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

Drove through the Redfish lake campgrounds even though they all said full… After striking out there, we moseyed over to sunny gulch campground and got a primo spot with a view.

The campground host laughed at us that we thought we would grab a spot in one of the 6 redfish campgrounds… Oh well. We are 2 miles from there. We Plopped our bums in the river and George worked since we have connectivity. We hit their laundry and showers. It was almost like we were there. Admin day. No pictures of our laundry but I assure you that we got everything done. Tomorrow we hike.

Sunny Gulch Campground fast fact: Sunny Gulch Campground has the nicest pit toilet you can hope to have. Leah, I have now experienced your pit toilet happiness experience.

Home is wherever I’m with you

July 11, 2021October 29, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Finished up John Day Fossil and traveled to 10 Mile Campground outside of Boise in the Boise National forest.

Lovely evening. We parked our camp chairs in the creek and stuck our feet in the creek. The temp got to 104 on the way through Boise and I was happy to have Frank as our travel horse (sorry Veronica…)

Idaho tonight! Going, going, Ore-gone

I posted this yesterday, but it cracks me up.

John Day Painted Fossil Beds

July 10, 2021July 11, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / Leave a comment

Left Tumalo Falls heading east towards the Clyde Holiday campground. Hit the John Day Fossil Beds on the way. Really enjoyed the painted hills, but since it was 100 degrees, we waited to go to Sheep Rock for an early morning hike.

The Austin girls will be happy to note that we did make it inside to see the visitor center video, but we had to do it in shifts since we had Ringo. This shows our dedication to both Ringo and the movie. And as George observed probably because one of us can’t have more facts than the other person…