THE END
Well, you knew this trip had to end sometime. After over 50 posts and over 200 photos, this is the end of the Great Rocky Mountains Grizzly Bear Adventure. I’ve included a few finishing photos for the final post. I get asked quite a bit about “how” I remember everything that I write in my posts. Well, other than the parts that I just plain make up, I take notes during the day and usually write in my journal every night. I mostly remember what we did each day but it’s too hard to try and remember every detail, especially the names of all the waterfalls and lakes and animals and highways and so on, so I take notes. You can see me jotting down some notes in the first photo, taken in Glacier Park Lodge (while the girls went shopping).
I’ve had quite a few questions about how we traveled. I’ve included a lunch photo of us in front of our little RV that Andrew rented for us. We were eating lunch overlooking the East fork of the Bitterroot River in Idaho. This was a pretty typical lunch for us: some lunchmeat, cheese, peanut butter, celery, carrots, almonds, and pita bread. All four of us took turns driving the RV, though I drove it the most. Vicky and I slept inside the RV while Andrew and April slept outside in their tent. All in all, it worked out quite well.
Someone told me that I said we saw plenty of deer, but I didn’t send out any deer photos. That’s because we see them every day at our house and they’re a major pest. They love to eat our grapes, roses, vegetables and most everything else. Personally, I consider them an ally of the gopher. But I will throw in one deer photo (photo 3), just to prove that we saw one. Andrew did a great job of catching this deer in mid air. This was along the Bow Valley Parkway.
You might remember from one of the first posts that we nicknamed our RV – Donner. That was my suggestion because we spent the first night at Donner Lake and then Vicky decided our RV needed a name. Well, when we were driving the Ice Fields Parkway, I managed to snag a dragon fly on our antenna. He stayed right there for over a hundred miles, through rain, wind, dust and pestilence. Andrew decided that the dragon fly was our trip mascot and that his name was Donner. Andrew took this photo of Donner at about 65 miles-an-hour as we cruised along the parkway (photo 4).
And now let’s face it, when I’m down to sending out mashed-on-the-car-antenna insect photos, the trip has reached the end of the line and deserves to be escorted into the sunset….
