July 1, 2016
Fishing Bridge RV Park
Yellowstone National Park

We drove 77 miles west from Cody on US 14. We passed through 3 tunnels and drove along side of Buffalo Bill Dam & Reservoir. The route was uphill and passed through some beautiful hills and mountains. We followed the Shoshone river for much of the route.

We entered Yellowstone National Park.

We traveled another 30 miles up over Sylvan Pass (8,500 feet) and came down to Yellowstone Lake. This lake is the largest I've seen short of the Great Lakes..

Finally we came to Fishing Bridge RV Park.

Fishing Bridge is a beautiful area near the center of the Park. It has a large campground, Grocery, Restaurant, Gas Station, Gift Shop, Amphitheatre, laundry, bath houses, and of course restrooms.

The RV sites are all back in and even though they claim to be big rig friendly, we learned first hand that many sites are impossible to get our 40 foot RV into. The first site we were assigned was one such site. I tried several times to back the rig in and it just wasn't going to work. The roads are fairly narrow and the trees right up to the road make it difficult to impossible to maneuver the RV back into the site. After giving up, we called the registration office and they gave us another site to try. That site worked for us and we successfully got into the site.

We have a nice secluded patio area and Marilyn jazzed it up with a lot of 4th of July decorations.......

So far we have seen several Bison. In fact today, 7-2-16, as we were getting Julie's RV  in her site, we drove by a Bison sitting along side the road in the RV park.

As I said Julie and her family will be spending the first week with us and as I write this blog we are sitting in a hotel in Jackson Hole with Sydney and Even who just flew here from San Diego to spend 2 weeks here with us while their parents are spending time in Switzerland taking care of some family business. So we are having a small reunion here in Yellowstone.

Unfortunately there is no WiFi here in Yellowstone and the Verizon cell service is hit or miss. The only way I could do this blog was because we are staying the night at a hotel because we didn't want to drive back through the Park after dark since the kids flight came in at night. All that to say it may be some time before I get another chance to do a blog update.....but I'll try to do one the first chance I get...I'msure we'll have lots of pictures and exciting things to show you....