Well today is starting off good. No really. No rain. I’m up early. I got cleaned up and headed down for the continental breakfast. Wow, my parents are both up and my sister is up eating. The breakfast was not bad, but I’m ready for home cooked meal like bacon, eggs, and toast or something like that.
Went back to the room, again I’m surprised everyone is up and moving around getting ready. We filled up with gas. The price was $3.68/gal, cheapest yet. Everyone headed out on the road to
Thermopolis, Wyoming. I guess there is suppose to be some dinosaur dig site there. Will find out and let you know. We took I-90 through
Buffalo, WY and took the scenic highway bypass 16 through the mountains.
We made a quick stop at Powder River Pass at the top of Bighorn Mountains to stretch legs and get a couple of pictures. Snow was still deep here. The temperature was 36 degrees and sunny. Kids complained about being cold and had the heater cranked by the time I got back in the car. Onward we go. It looks like we will be making a pit stop at a small town, Worland. So far we have been on the road 3 hours. Not bad driving 161 miles. Looks like on the maps about 35 miles to go to Thermopolis.
We made it to Thermopolis. Nice little town. We ate a quick bite to eat at a little diner and then headed to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center here in Thermopolis. We went out on a tour of the dig sites. I did get a picture of the tour guide explaining why they choose the site and what was found. We then went back to the center and checked out the museum. It was more educational, they had some neat things. After going through the Dinosaur Center we headed to the largest hot springs and walked it. It was neat but nothing exciting, we get to see a lot of thermal hot springs in Yellowstone. Once we got the entire sight seeing done in Thermopolis we hit the pavement to the north to Cody, Wyoming. No stops in between.
We rolled into Cody, Wyoming around 6pm. We found the Ponderosa here in the middle of town. Mom had reserved 2 cabins and a tepee. Turned out the cabins did not have any restroom. The restrooms were towards the middle of the camp ground/RV park. The tepee had a dirt floor and gap around the bottom and was on the opposite end of the park from the cabins. I guess the accommodations would not be too bad, but the weather was not greatest. Currently the temperature is 46 degrees out and wind gusts up to 20 mph. We decided to find someplace else. Michelle headed back east into town and we headed towards the west. We ended up going to the Big Bear Motel. We stayed in them the last time we came out to Yellowstone three years ago. The price was right too, $59 for the night compared to $120+ a night a few of the other hotels/motels they checked.
After getting settled in we went out for supper at the Grannys Dinner in downtown Cody. Good food, reasonable priced. Michelle took the kids to the Rodeo her in town. Hope they have fun even though it is cold and windy. Well, I’m going to go for now and look up which way we want to go to West Yellowstone, either straight through the park or up and over. Bye for now.
Well today is starting off good. No really. No rain. I’m up early. I got cleaned up and headed down for the continental breakfast. Wow, my parents are both up and my sister is up eating. The breakfast was not bad, but I’m ready for home cooked meal like bacon, eggs, and toast or something like that. Went back to the room, again I’m surprised everyone is up and moving around getting ready. We filled up with gas. The price was $3.68/gal, cheapest yet. Everyone headed out on the road to 
We made it to Thermopolis. Nice little town. We ate a quick bite to eat at a little diner and then headed to the 
