Trip-Day 2 Report

We left  Riverton at 9 am.  OUt side of there someplace we passed through 3 short tunnels through the rock mountains as we headed towards Cody, then Thermopolus.  HRH put on his new oxygen machine for first time, on the road.  Nice quiet running machine.  At 12:20 we deisiled up in Cody, then sped through the town, quick quick quick, for fear of seeing someplace we might want to stop and look around, looked like a fun town to visit sometime when our foot was not so hot for the gas pedal.  We passed through the short tunnels in the Wind River Canyon after we left Shoshoee, then when we left Cody-three more tunnels, the last one so long it caused my claustrophobia to kick in!  Hated that!  2:00pm we entered the east entrance of yellowstone at which point another "see how fast we can get through this" mode turned on.  We arrived at the north exit of yellowstone at 4:42 inspite of getting stopped by a herd of buffalo which we think numbered abour 200 or more and they seemed to be having fun runniing from one side of the road to the other at random so the traffic was stopped for about 15 min. until the park police made everyone move on.  We also had sightings of pelicans, eagles or hawks, geese, ducks, a wolf  with people stopped along the road and a grizzly which had people stopped along the road, but we managed to buzz right on by both without being slowed down hardly at all.  The buffalo sounded so mean as they sort of bellowed in a low grumpy sound.  At 6 pm we fueled up at Emigrant and kept on trucking hoping we would find a place to stay.  I had given up hope by this late, but in Livingston, the first place we tried had some spots.  We finally made it to a restuarant about ten min. to 9.  The food and the service was pitsy.  HRH has promised to stop earlier today!  We are heading towards Great Falls today.