Our almost three months at Buffalo Bill State Park were wonderful! ... (June 15 thru Sept 8th) We had the absolute best host location and Wyoming, specifically Cody, is the best place we have hosted to date. We made some new friends and enjoyed Yellowstone National Park ad nauseam. The scenery and weather here could not be beat. The only reason we left; winter is coming. In fact, two days after we left the Cody area had snow. below is a pic sent to us from Cody.
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| Cookout at Caudle's Host site. |
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| Sam Martinsen, Park Ranger and new friend. Sam was a delight and a great person. (I had to say that, he carries a gun) |
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| Final Camp Host Dinner at Irma's Hotel, Cody - Terry/June - Vickie/Mike Caudle - Barb/Dallas Reid |
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Three of our new friends. Dale (in hat) a seasonal park employee, and Mike & Vickie Caudle, camp hosts at North Shore Campground.
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| Enjoying the Cody downtown park and one of the Thursday night concerts. We went to all of them. |
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The first snow on Trout Peak viewed from our campsite about the first of September.
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| One last look of Yellowstone National park - We visited the park about 14 days while we were here in Cody for the summer. |
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| The Bison in Yellowstone are so familiar with visitors they mingle and stop traffic whenever they feel like it. |
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| Sunset at Buffalo Bill State Park. |
We wrapped up our Hosting at Buffalo Bill State Park Monday, September 8th and left early Tuesday for an 8:00 A.M. appointment in Cody to have the trailer wheel bearings re-greased and brakes checked. All checked out just fine and we were on the road to Greybull, WY by 10:30 A.M. Arriving in Greybull, we stopped at their Rest Area and visited a new museum that used to be the Hawkins & Powers Aviation. They were in business providing converted aircraft to fight forrest fires. Apparently a tanker crashed and new regulations by the government finally forced Hawkins out of business. The local Chamber of Commerce set up this museum at the rest area and was opened to the public just a few weeks ago.
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| Some of the tankers in action that were once used to fight fires in the West. These are now on permanent display here in Greybull as reminders of the past. |
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Ain't she a beaut! ..... (both)
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We woke up in Greybull, WY Wednesday A.M. to snow flurries, but by noon still under clouds, temps were about 60 degrees. Thursday A.M. it was 38 and a rain/snow mix while I got things ready for departure 280 miles South to Rawlins, WY. We were hoping to escape the colder temps coming down from Canada, but the trip to Rawlins, WY was wet and that snow/rain mix all day. High temps were 38 degrees, but by Friday A.M. we were at 27 degrees.
We stayed in Rawlins only one night and left for Craig, Colorado under cool sunny skies. Craig was just 120 miles South of Rawlins, but temps rose to about 70 by 4 P.M., and it'll get warmer over the next few days.
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| This pic was sent to us by friends in Cody, just two days after we left. We got out just in time. |
We drove over to Steamboat Springs, CO, 40 miles East of Craig and enjoyed the area and nice sunny day, temps about 70. This is a big Ski town and I bet it's really busy when the snow covers the ski hills/mountains.
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Fish Creek Falls in Steamboat Springs, CO
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We'll be moving slowly South, Rifle, CO - Green River, UT, Las Vegas, NV, Elephant Butte, NM; we're scheduled to arrive at our winter location in Tucson, AZ by November 1st... Until then, we'll update with particulars.......
STILL LOVIN' TRAVEL AND SEEING ALL WE CAN WHILE WE CAN...........
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