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The next morning, we packed up camp and headed into Yellowstone proper. Since Chris had never been to the park (and it had been years since I had been there), we decided to take the day working our way through the park into Grand Teton NP where we would camp the night. Since it was mid-July, the park was insanely busy, as you can see from the line just to get past the pay station:
We had gone about one mile before we hit bumper-to-bumper traffic for as far as we could see. Either people were driving extremely slow or there was a ‘buffalo jam.’ As you can see from the pictures, the traffic was caused by the latter:
We made our way slowly over to Old Faithful. Once we got there, we found out we had just missed an eruption, so we had to wait another half an hour. We took time to go through the visitors center as well as grab some front row seats for the show (which was a good thing since it was so busy!). Afterwards, we walked around some of the geyser trails before making our way to the Grand Tetons.
We set up camp in the late afternoon and took some time to explore around the area. We found a nice, private, cold river, so we packed up our shower supplies and took a (very) refreshing shower and swim.
After cooking dinner, we realized that we forgot to pack plates. Shoot. The best we could do was a cardboard box. Not classy, but it worked just fine.
The next morning, we packed up early and got a start on the final leg of the drive. But first, we had to make a quick stop in Jackson:
After that, the drive was very uneventful (except for one frantic there’s-no-bathroom-for-another-400-miles-what-am-I-going-to-do and one I’m-so-hungry-I-could-eat-my-arm-but-there’s-no-resturants-within-a-200-mile-radius incident).