More on Cody Trip

Our second day of the Cody trip was just as much fun as the first. We took our time in the AM just relaxing and getting our things together to check out of the cabin. At 10 AM, we checked out and went into town to walk around and visit some of our favorite stores that were on the main street. We were to meet Karen and George and Brenda and Hank at the Millstone restaurant for lunch before departing for home. At 11:30, we all met and had "build your own" pizzas that we shared with each other. It was a great time and we reminisced about all that we have been doing since our last gathering together in 2010. Below is a shot of the group as we left the restaurant at around 1 PM:

We had a fabulous time in Cody and enjoyed our time with our old friends.

It was another very rainy, cool day for traveling home to Jackson. We didn't get very far out of town driving toward Yellowstone when we spotted some very young elk trying to cross the road. There were three babies that were separated from their mothers who had made it across the road. Here is a shot of the babies trying to find an opening in the fence:

All the while, the mothers were crying out to them and the babies were crying and desperate to get across the road to join them. One of the babies did get through the fence:

and crossed the road to meet up with her mother:

They were part of a larger group of elk that were still on the other side of the road:

We're sure that they eventually all got back together again.

 



The drive to the eastern entrance of Yellowstone was beautiful, but we drove through heavy rain almost the entire way. It didn't stop on the entire trip home, except for maybe a few minutes at a time. The drive to the main loop road in Yellowstone from the east entrance is over a pass that is full of waterfalls that are on the side of the road - like this one:

We must have passed about 10 waterfalls similar to that one.

Part of the drive into this section of Yellowstone was through an area that was devastated by fire many years ago. This is an indication of the damage from that fire and how the trees look today:

New growth is beginning to appear, but the landscape is bare for as far you can see through this section of the park.

We did see more wildlife on the drive home, and this is one shot of a young buck - still in velvet - that was grazing on the side of the road:

and finally, this part of a huge herd of bison that we saw as we entered the Tetons on the final leg of our trip:

Our original plan was to drive more through Yellowstone - to the northern section - but time ran out for us in Cody so we shortened the drive to the same route we took on our first day. We will be returning in the near future to take that northern route.

We arrived back home at 6 PM last night and were happy that we had the opportunity to visit Cody and spend some quality time with our good friends...