I thought I would combine these two days since they were pretty much travel days. And honestly, nothing much happened on day twelve. Not even any decent pictures.
On day eleven, we woke with a little sadness. We definitely were not ready to leave Yellowstone and head home. But the vacation days were running out, not to mention the money. We got up early again and finished packing the car. We went over to the general store next door and got some breakfast for the road, gassed up the car, and headed south. Today, we would drive through the Grand Tetons National Park and visit Jackson Hole, Wyoming before ending the long day in Boulder, Colorado.
We headed south and left Yellowstone through the southern entrance. When you leave the park in this direction, you immediately enter the Grand Tetons National Park. The Grand Teton mountain range is amazing and beautiful. You get right up next to them as they dive down into the various lakes that come right up to their base. Every angle is beautiful. We made several stops along the way to take pictures and just take the view in. My favorite place is Jenny Lake and I could have set there and stared all day. We stopped at the visitor center and bought a few T-shirts.
We then headed down to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. From Jackson, TN to Jackson, WY was very cool. Jackson Hole is really a ski resort town so during the summer, I didn't expect it to be very busy. But the place was hopping. The downtown surrounds a town square. The town square is entered through arches that were made from antlers of deer, elk, and moose. It is very cool place. We stopped here and got some more T-Shirts and drove through a Wendy's to head south towards Colorado.
Wyoming is very beautiful and has many different types of landscapes. As we traveled to the southern most part of the state we traveled in a flat area that was nestled between two snow-capped mountain ranges. It was a long way to the interstate but it was a straight shot. We finally made it to the interstate and turned east toward home. As we did, we entered a new terrain. It was very much like those old western movies when the cowboys travel out into the desert. Another great things that we got to examine. We stopped in Laramie, Wyoming to have dinner before heading south into Colorado.
We finally made into Colorado and on into Boulder. We got in very late and it was the only time the entire trip that I was ready to get out of the car. It was exhausting, and we were homesick for Yellowstone.
Day twelve was nothing more than travel. We slept in just a little since we all were so tired. But we got up and had breakfast at the hotel. We then loaded up the car and headed out. We traveled through Denver and out in to the Great Plains. We traveled across Kansas and back into Missouri before making it to Kansas City to spend the night. It wasn't a bad day at all. But it was just driving across the flat plains of Kansas. Not really much to talk about.
The next day is our last day of this great adventure and the destination is home. At this point, I am just ready to be home and to get this driving done. But we have one last adventure to do before we get home.
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