Traveling with Ray Owens

Our plane trip to Bozeman, Montana was pretty dog gone good.  The planes were on time and although they were very full, they were uneventful.  We flew to Salt Lake City first before flying on to Bozeman.  Penny reminded Candace that her first trip to Salt Lake City airport was when she, Penny and our two cats flew from there to San Antonio.  Candace was about 4 weeks old.  The cats had to fly in the cargo hold and Penny said she thought about sending her with them (kidding!).   We were moving ultimately to Ruston, Louisiana, I followed a few days later in a U-Haul truck.  But I digress. 

I felt very good to be back with the mountains.   Salt Lake and the town of Logan, Utah are very beautiful places.  The flight north from Salt Lake City to Bozeman was very cloudy until just before we landed.  Bozeman valley was cloud-free and very nice weather.

We waited for a while for Wes and Lorna to arrive and then we rented our two minivans from Budget and we made our first stop at the Bozeman Costco.  We needed snack food and also, more importantly, Bear Spray.   No, this is not deodorant for the bears but rather a spray to deter any bear that was of the mind to get too close to us.    Our ultimate goal is to donate the unused bear spray to the park to give to unprepared hikers.

We then drove to West Yellowstone to the Stagecoach Inn   our residence for the next three nights. 

We had dinner at The Slippery Otter Pub.   It was a packed house and the 10 of us had to split into two tables of 6 and 4.   The food was pretty good.  

Since our previous night had been abruptly ended at about 3:00 AM. We were all pretty much in bed around 9:00

Tomorrow begins our grand tour of a super-volcano.  Not the largest in the world it is number three.

Let the fun ensue!