POSTCARDS FROM A WESTERN ROAD TRIP

WITH LITTLE WARNING, MY WIFE ended up with two weeks of vacation to use immediately. So, in the middle of August, she decided it was high time we visited Yellowstone National Park. We’d never been. Didn’t know much about the park other than what Ken Burns had taught us. Do we camp? Do we rent a cabin? We had no idea what we were doing, but opened up a map and dove in.

We decided to look for a hotel in West Yellowstone, Montana, that sits on the western entrance of the park. Then, looking at the map we saw that Yellowstone [West Yellowstone?] sat conveniently right on top of Grand Teton National Park, so