{"id":1678,"date":"2009-12-09T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2009-12-04T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:45:58","slug":"2009-in-review-best-car-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"2009 In Review: Best Car Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bear Tooth Highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We do a lot of driving and even occasionally deliberately get in the car to drive somewhere and back just for the fun of it. Those rides almost always involve a lot of stops to take pictures of things. This past week we had a reason to drive from Idaho Falls to Ucon<\/a> for a luncheon after our shift at the Idaho Falls Temple. We could take either the ten-minute version of the drive up the four-lane highway, or the 30-minute version along the rural country roads. We opted for the 30-minute version and saw a fabulous old barn that we’ll need to visit some day in the future with cameras in tow.<\/p>\n

Some of the drives happen because we’re vacationing somewhere. The “best car ride” happened this year when we were in Yellowstone National Park in September<\/a>. Unlike past visits to the Park, this time we did things a bit differently. Rather than visit all the tourist attractions, we put our motor home into a campsite at Canyon Village and then drove out the Park entrances to Red Lodge, Montana<\/a> and to Cody, Wyomin<\/a>g. We hadn’t take the Cody route in more than twenty years and had never driven the Bear Tooth Highway over to Red Lodge.<\/p>\n

Both drives took a full day and both were beautiful drives with many stops to take pictures. The Bear Tooth Highway<\/a> goes over a high mountain pass and then drops down on the other side over a switch-back road down. The views at the top (as evidenced by the picture to the top left) were quite spectacular. This was definitely the “best car ride” of 2009!<\/p>\n

Ta ta for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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