International Falls, MN

We left Dickinson, North Dakota this morning in a heavy fog. After driving a couple of hours, the sun broke through and the rest of the day went pretty smooth...that is if you enjoy being in a car for 10+ hours.

Oh yeah....except for the road construction about 60 miles out of International Falls where the idiot flagger girls failed to direct me to the detour route. I drove the entire 5 mile paving project with huge trucks bearing down on me, and their drivers shouting at me to "move over." I asked one fellow if I was suppose to be where I was and he replied "I don't think so!" Duh! so I asked him if I could get through and he nodded yes. I just put my head down and drove straight through all that heavy equipment. I wasn't about to turn around.

We've checked into the Days Inn for a couple of days. Am I ever ready to be out of that car!

Tomorrow we'll visit Voyageur National Park...our 23rd National Park this year and number 36 of the 56 Parks! We made our bucket list and we're checking places off - one by one.

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park is just an hour or so South of Yellowstone. We visited Teton a few years ago, but decided to take this opportunity to visit again. We enjoyed a nice boat ride across Jenny Lake. We had a gorgeous day for hiking, and the scenery was incredible. We even had a face-to-face encounter with a huge Bull Moose. He was most interested in eating leaves off the trees than he was us us (and we were glad!) We watched him for 10 or 15 minutes before he made his way to the river. We've seen moose before, but never, never, never this close. What an amazing creature....huge!