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9.02: day 3

We woke up feeling very rested on this day. Our hotel room in Boise was very nice and we felt less pressure to hurry because our drive was shorter than the previous days. Also, on this day we knew what was coming... Yellowstone National Park! I had planned our entire trip on visiting this special place. We were to arrive in Yellowstone by around 6pm and set up camp.
Yep, we camped!

Map of day 3. Our hotel to the West Entrance of Yellowstone National Park.

Each day, Mike and I would share lunch duty. We had a full cooler and dry box where we kept a weeks worth of lunch supplies. This kept food costs down as most of our hotels provided breakfast. That only left us to purchase dinner on the road.
Lunch for day 3- Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, potato salad and a nectarine. Yum!

A picture our our lunch spot for the day and old 'Velveeta' (my car) pulling the trailer. She was quite the champ.

I was unaware that about 1/4 of our entire road trip would move right along the Oregon Trail. Apparently I am not the only one who was eager to get to California when I had the chance... now I am on my way to Chicago.

The drive into Yellowstone National Park and out of the Park are really beautiful. Remember the movie 'A river runs through it'... yep it was filmed just outside of Yellowstone. You can visit the house where the movie was based- very exciting.
Once we arrived at the park it was about 7 pm. We figured we had plenty of time to get to our campsite set up. When we pulled up to the West Entrance the Ranger told us where to go: he said our camp was about 1.5 HOURS into the park!!! Yea we had no idea the park was that big and by this time it started to get really dark.

We made it to the campsite in about 2 hours because we kept stopping for this... just off the side of the road- steam coming up from the liquid hot magma below! These spots were everywhere! Amazing!!