Day Six: Gardiner, MT - Bismarck, ND
02 June 2009
On this day, we were supposed to drive straight to Bismarck. It would
have already been a pretty long day, with a predicted 8.5 hours of
drive. But we liked Yellowstone so much that we decided to do a little
detour and drive through the park one more time. I think this turned
out to be our longest day, leaving early in the morning, and arriving
around 7-8pm.
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Gardiner, Yellowstone, ... |
Gardiner is located right at the North Entrance of the park, and we
drove to the North East Entrance, exiting through a little town named
Silver Gate.
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A beautiful little church in Gardiner.
(photo: Karin Buchholz)
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What we did not realize at the time we decided to make that detour is
that the road taking back to the highway to Bismarck took us through the
mountains. We kept going up and up, marveling at the beauty of the snow
covered surroundings, until we reached a place called "Top of the
world". By then, the snow on the side of the road was pretty thick,
and the beauty had turned into impatience... We even drove through an
active rope tow with a skier using it. June 2nd!
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(photo: A chance encounter in the middle of nowhere)
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Sleep Number beds, he he he.
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