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Terrible End to Our Trip — Shades of National Lampoon’s Vacation

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Mike Goad on September 20th, 2007

The rule in Yellowstone and Teton National Parks is that all pets must be on a leash at all times, especially dogs.
Dogs have a tendency to chase after critters bigger than themselves, which can get them and their owner into BIG trouble — even death of the pet or owner.
This guy wasn’t following the rules.

A [...]

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Read how I got this photo of this female Bighorn below in this article.
Today was our last trip into Yellowstone, at least for this year.
Our plan was to go over to Tower Falls and hike down to the base and then go over to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Along the way, I [...]

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For the most part, we have found the other visitors to Yellowstone to be very courteous and polite — with most of them not in any big rush.
It doesn’t do any good to rush. You’ll just have to slow down a further down the road when come up to more traffic — or a [...]

Continue reading about Leave all that rush-rush-rush at home! — Don’t bring it here!

We’ve visited Yellowstone National Park more times than we can remember over the years. One thing that has held true every time we visited after Labor Day — a U.S. holiday at the beginning of September — is that the crowds are gone except at the most popular spots like Old Faithful, and, even [...]

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Mike Goad on September 9th, 2007

We’ve had quite a bit of rain since we’ve been here in Lewistown, Montana. Fortunately, though, it’s not been raining when we’ve been out and about.
After the Chokecherry Festival yesterday, we went for a drive into the Montana’s Snowy Mountains. As we were getting closer, it seemed like some of the white of the [...]

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Mike Goad on September 6th, 2007

The last couple of days have been spent working with an installer, Ron, trying to get my satellite internet system working and training me on how to set it up and use it. It’s a new model and there have been a few wrinkles. When I leave here though, we will be comfortable [...]

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