Wednesday,
September 3, 2025 Big DAWG
Yeow! Look at that!
That is the BIGGEST dog I ever saw!
He is looking at me! Do I run? I am in the little house that moves. No place really to run. He is making eye contact! What do I do? My human is touching me. I guess I can calm down… maybe. Gosh that was one big dog. I am watching it walk away. Gosh that is a big dog! I gotta catch my breath!
It was a
quiet night at the Buffalo Bill State Park.
I took my morning walk alone, around the campground, across a bridge,
around the launch ramp. The reservoir
water level is low. The launch ramp
doesn’t quite make it to the water.
We readied
Artie, then headed west towards Yellowstone.
We enter the Shoshone National Forest.
There are streams, meadows and rocky mountains. We are climbing in altitude. We are surrounded by pines and aspens. We climb to 8000 feet. As we cross into Yellowstone, we come upon a
lone buffalo in the street. Naturally,
we stop. It is bigger than us! It slowly saunters by us. We have never seen Rudy’s eyes so big! He did not know what to make of the buffalo. As the buffalo slowly walked by, he looked at
Rudy. I didn’t know if Rudy was going to
bolt or what, but he was all sort of antsy!
He did not take his eyes off the buffalo until it was way past us!
We continue
on past the beautiful Yellowstone Lake.
It is a huge lake, and it is very calm this morning. We follow the roads left till we are on the
John D. Rockerfeller highway, which will take us down to the Grand Tetons.
We do NOT
have a reservation so we are not expecting much. We were last here 12 years
ago, and if you didn’t have a reservation, they would find a site and you were
good. Now, you have to go through
reservation hell. Recreation.Gov allows
you to book online. The problem with
this is that people make the reservations, and then don’t show up. Thus, empty sites are unavailable. It is far more crowded now than we have seen
in the past, and we were here in prime season last time. Fortunately for us, Debbie the ranger decided
to put us in a group site for the night.
It is secluded and quite nice.
Once in the
site, Spouse decides he wants to go down to Jackson. It is about 40 miles away, through the
viewpoints in the park. We pass through
the area where we saw a shemoose and her
baby the last time we were here.
Certainly, they would still be there, right? Yeah right…
Once on the main highway, we pass a herd of buffalo. I swear these are the same buffalo that were
here the last time we came this way!
We pull into
Jackson… oh my it is busy. The square in
Jackson was probably built in the 1800’s.
While the buildings might have been updated, the square limits traffic
movement. There are all sorts of art galleries
and western stores. Cowboy boots are the
thing. Not quite as flashy as Nashville,
but still big. I tried some on when we
were in Nashville… I have never been so
uncomfortable in my life! Not my
thing.
It is busy and it is hell finding a parking
place. But we find one. We found a Thai restaurant, but it was
closed. We are told of another one, and
we walk there… it is closed. We started
back towards the truck, and find a Mexican place… closed. Doesn’t anybody in this town eat late lunches
or early dinners? It is crowded, we are
hungry and we FINALLY find a place that has a happy hour going with their happy
hour menu. Limited options but we were
able to stuff our faces. We stopped long enough to get a picture at one of the antler arches in the square. Then, we fueled up
and got the hell out of town. We have
been here a few times, but this was totally insane.
We made it
back to the solitude of Artie. Maybe we
are secluded enough that we will see some wildlife… Some deer did wander through the area, acting
like they owned the place. Oh wait… they
do…
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