We’re on our way home from Yellowstone National Park. We’ve just passed Rexburg, Idaho. The Snake River plain sure is flat! After being up in the mountains for a couple of days, the flatness down here is quite the contrast. It’s also quite a bit warmer here as well. The SprintPCS wireless card picked up a connection in Ashton, but lost it again between there and St. Anthonly. It’s been pretty solid since then. I was trying to read home e-mail using GoToMyPC, but the resonse time is just too slow.

We were definitely disconnected in Yellowstone. Too much so, actually. There doesn’t seem to be even analog cell service anywhere we were in the park. Both Nina and I needed to make a couple of phone calls and had to use pay phones to do so. Maybe the park makes money off the pay phones? I’d vote for having reasonable cell service at least at the larger campgrounds. On the other hand, it was nice being completely out of the loop on everything. We’ll get home around 2:30 this afternoon and then we’ll see what’s been happening while we were vacationing.

This will likely be the last use of the RV before winter. Since we bought it late last year we’ve used it several times, but mostly for non-vacation activities, such as relocating from Colorado Springs to Pocatello! This was the first time that we’ve been camping in the RV just to go camping since we bought it. It’s also the first time we’ve been camping just to go camping since Memorial Day 2003! We’ve spent a lot of time in the trailer and then the RV since then, but always with some other agenda in mind, such as the family reunion for Nina’s side of the family last summer. This is also the first time Nina and I have been to Yellowstone Park without family with us. We had a very relaxing couple of days and enjoyed being together.

We left Pocatello about 6 p.m. on Thursday evening and drove to the campground at Norris in the Park. It took a little under 4 hours door to door. We found a campsite, parked, and went to bed. The next day we moved to a little better campsite where we spent Friday and Saturday nights. In a later post (when we get home), I’ll put up some pictures and other details about the short vacation.