Even though the camping trip didn't pan out, the day trip was a success.
I remember all our early morning departures, and late night drives. Some of our best travel times were past midnight - back when we could stay up past 8. That's when the kids were asleep! Finally! Peace!
This time, we could have joined up. But - been there, done that. That's why it's important to the girl-child to share it with her OWN family, even to bring kid's friends like we always did.
Here they are on the way there.
First stop? The museums. Thermop has a great main museum. DD was calling it the natural history, and that's part of it, like most of the pictures coming up. But the same museum has a neat little "town" in the basement you walk through: buildings, roadway walking path, household items on display from back in the day. And outside - old equipment like railway cars and road graders - as I recall. They also have a firearms display, although the real museum for firearms is at the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum in Cody, WY.
The boys looking over the "gentle" gems and rocks...
But some of the larger "wild" rocks are unpredictable!
And many of the fossils still have a little bite left in them!
Even Dad got a scare!
They had no need to go to the Fountain of Youth RV Park, with the included mineral pool for guests, and instead went to Hot Springs State Park - including a walk around the grounds through the mineral deposits.
Then they went swimming at Star Plunge, located on the grounds. DD was surprised to find this Zoltar fortune telling machine there, of Tom Hanks "Big" fame.
Then after swimming for a few hours, it was off to Shoshoni and Yellowstone Drug for an historic "Yellowstone Malt". But, it closed early. Not to fear, another newer place has taken up sales and they all got their choices of ice-cream.
Thereafter it was "Hell's Half Acre"...
And finally, that last little period of "peace in the car" on the way home.
That was last weekend.
Yesterday, I went out into the "High Wind Warning" and finished up some work on Tow-Mater's camp site parking by getting the boards in the ground around the gravel area.
And removing more Yucca plants, cactus - and then mowing one width of wild around it.
He's ready for winter.
Me? I hope you join up in Truck Campers for any of the 1968 Travel Queen threads. That's where I'll be. Truck Campers gets more variety and many more posts than in this Vintage Campers Forum - so it can be harder to catch new contributions. But I suggest subscribing to the ones I'll be in most: Exterior, Galley and Great Room, Bathroom Re-Model, Fresh Water, Finishes and Finishing. Or go to the first post in ANY of them and subscribe to all 13 (Chapter 14 kind of died on the vine). Some are closed, but I should finish most - if not all - this winter.
Here's how she looked yesterday...
