The whole adventure started in northeast Wyoming, where we had slept at Vern and Shirley's Motel. Nice place, Vern may or may not have been an axe murderer...but he took our picture before we left, so that's good.
After grabbing some breakfast, we attempted to take the "scenic route" over to Yellowstone. Wanna know what's confusing? Highways in Wyoming. Our whole trip up to Yellowstone was an adventure. To say the least. We ended up driving around the entire state (literally) on the wrong highway...but it wasn't too bad because along the way we saw some REAL cowboys and a bunch of cattle in the road!
Wyoming was a gorgeous place, we went a bit crazy from all the driving but ended up loving Yellowstone! We stayed in the park for a couple of hours to see Old Faithful and the other beautiful sights. After exiting the area, we decided that another trip to this place with our families and an extended stay is more than necessary.
Directly outside of Yellowstone, we found Al's Westward Ho Motel. We drove into the little town of West Yellowstone, Montana at about 8:45pm and stopped in to see if we could get a room. Picture your great great grandma's living room...now picture an older woman with dark black hair that stands straight up all around...this is gammy and her motel office.
The town closed at 9pm, but we still needed to find some food--after walking to the only open restaurants with menus that included buffalo burgers, three meat cowboy dinner, chicken, hamburger, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, etc...we finally found a pizzaria that served meatless spaghetti and bread! Magical little adventure in West Yellowstone.
After saying goodbye to gammy and finding a little diner, we decided that we really just wanted to spend the day in a coffee shop. So we set out for Salt Lake City where they were sure to have big city cafes....
That's right. We drove from Montana, through the eastern half of Idaho and into Utah to find coffee. Some of you might think that's just crazy. And you're probably right. BUT Utah is way cooler than we expected, might even want to move to SLC someday. Our hotel front desk man gave us a suggestion for a restaurant that might serve veggie burgers, it turned out to be the cutest little place ever and we had a fancy dinner to celebrate our crazy road trip and split second decision making skills that brought us to the great salt lake and morman country!
We'll keep you updated!
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