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I’m sure once we head into Yellowstone Park, we’ll encounter more traffic than anywhere on our trip! Today, despite being back on the Interstate again, the other vehicles were scarce.

Last night, we sent the night in a city park in Douglas, WY. Our decision to push on worked in our favour as we really had no rain where we spent the night. Of course, we have no way of knowing what it would have been if we had kept to our original plans, but we were happy with the outcome of our decision. We had no fees to pay and there were about 6 other campers in the park.

As we drove today, we had quite a bit of sun and as we approached the town of Buffalo, we could see the mountains towards Yellowstone to the west There were even some snow-capped peaks. Tomorrow we’ll see them much closer.

Since we were ahead of our schedule by a day, we had to find a spot for the night. The National Forest Campground where we are camping tomorrow night only had sites that were first come and it was about half an hour from Buffalo. We found a Recreation Area along side De Smet Lake with beautiful sites for only $15/night and were able to pull into a site with a view of the lake. It’s great stopping around 2 pm since you have much more choice of your site. The sun is shining bright and even though our fridge is running on electric, the solar is keeping up and we haven’t been draining our batteries!

Tomorrow we head into areas with limited to no cellular coverage so our posts will be more intermittent. However we should have cell coverage on Thursday as we head north to our next 2 night stop. The weather outlook is great for the next days – upper 20s, sunny with lows at night about 13-15C.

We had about a half hour of heavy rain last night but nothing severe. Shortly after heading out this morning we left the Interstate behind and headed along a 2 lane highway. The road was good and, although slower with the small towns, it was a much more interesting drive.

We crossed another time zone change so we are now 2 hrs behind home. We also passed some neat rock formations including one called Chimney Rock.

We made a decision to push past tonight’s planned destination and go to where we planned to be tomorrow night. There are severe weather warnings including hail, for the area we are in and through up to our planned stop. It seemed like a logical plan. We are heading for a city park in Douglas, WY. Hopefully it is the right decision! With the time change today, we should arrive about 3:30.