The Grand RV Tour: Grand Teton National Park

Just about every morning on our trip, Cori had 3-4 hours of work to do before we would leave. We chose campgrounds with internet access so he wouldn't have to miss too much. It gave the kids and I nice leisurely mornings to make breakfast and get ready for the next leg of our journey.

This day we passed through forest lands that had been ravished by pine beetles. Then we headed up and over the continental divide.

I should have mentioned a post or two ago that by this point in the trip we had encountered our next mechanical difficulty. The AC in the front of the RV completely died (this meant no AC whatsoever - no generator while driving, remember? So no AC in the back or in the front). Things weren't too bad with the windows down. But there was another problem brewing that caused the floor around the driver's feet to get uncomfortably hot. We started switching drivers more frequently. Cori really did most of the driving though.

We drove a lot of beautiful countryside with the windows down -- half of South Dakota and ALL of Wyoming. There was something about it that I liked.

We made a turn and our next destination came up over the horizon like the Emerald City. Grand Teton National Park. We had thought about taking the kids through Yellowstone, but opted against it assuming that the park would be extremely crowded. We certainly made the right choice because Grand Teton was impossibly empty. We were so happy.

We didn't have any car sickness problems from the older three kids, which was completely miraculous. On this day, Jeffers had a hard time keeping anything down. Not sure if it was motion sickness or something else. But he spent most of the day stripped down and draped in a pool towel.

Allowance money was spent at the visitors' center and the kids quickly set to work learning to draw park animals out of the drawing book Gracie had purchased.

We stopped at Jenny Lake for a picnic spaghetti dinner and had an unexpected guest. She was the only other one at the lake with us that evening. The park was so empty!

The visitors' center is new and really beautiful inside. We were so happy with our day in the park. That night we finished our drive into Iona, Idaho. Reunion time!