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August 9-11, 2017 Road Trip

Out of the blue, our road trip took a huge detour. We have friends that live in Canada and they had seen some of the posts of our trip and made a comment, "drive 10 more hours and come see us." Well you know what that means to Kev. So we did. And I don't know why but I didn't take any pictures along the way. Maybe cause the only thing to see was farms. Thousands and thousands of acres and hours and hours or driving thru farms. We actually got worried that we made a bad choice cause it felt like we were never going to get there. The Kelly's actually are farmers when they are not at Encanterra in the winter. I remember texting Tammy on our way there and asked her address and she said drive thru town (which has a gas station and a general store) and pass the railroad tracks and our house is on the left. Oh boy....we were hoping it was that easy to find. But alas, we made it. What a beautiful place. Their house property has of course lots of acreage as well as some silos, farming equipment and a pickleball court. It was really fun spending time with them and learning about farms as well as playing every morning and every night.

When we left the Kelly's we decided to go to Banff which is also in Canada. Not close to them but someplace we decided we wanted to see and it was on our way to where we needed to be, which is Idaho for the tournament. Banff was a pretty ski resort town that had beautiful views, lakes and resorts.

August 7-8, 2017 Road Trip

There were alot of forest fires around that had lingering smoke on alot of our trip. Some places the smoke really obstructed some views. The Grand Tetons was one of them. I know they are spectacular to see even from afar, but unless we were right up on them it was hard to see how grand they really are.

We actually did a couple days at Yellowstone so here's more pictures of the park and some other geysers. It's a really pretty place and we loved doing hikes and drives around it. But before we went to Yellowstone again we did go thru Jackson Hole again and again saw tons of buffalo.

And I wanted another arch picture, and this time there was noone else in it, which I loved.

August 4-6, 2017 Road Trip

I decided to break up the Road Trip into several different posts. Otherwise, it would be a really long post.
After we left Utah we went up to Wyoming and found a some great places to do some hiking and got our first hotel of the trip.

Then on to Jackson Wyoming

This is at a park in downtown Jackson Hole. There are four entrances to the park and each one has one of these archways. It is made out of antlers, it's really cool.

Back to tent living lol

We saw lots of buffalo. And they even created a few traffic jams throughout the trip.

Best way to end the night, sitting around a campfire.

Next stop was Yellowstone National Park. We drove around Yellowstone as well as got out here and there and did some hikes. It was really pretty.

This was hilarious. So this elk was right next to the sidewalk at a rest spot we went to. It certainly wasn't afraid of people and didn't take off running. So I tell Kev to take a pic of me next to this elk. And this is what he got....lol that's why I take the pictures.