Surprise Endings

We are now in Gardiner, MT after spended the day driving through Yellowstone National Park, and yes the Van is fixed and back on the road now! Yesterday Adam, Andrew and I split up with the plan for me to go to Bozeman with the van and Adam and Andrew would hang back to camp until i was able to drive the van back through Ennis to pick them up. Then a whole work day later the guys at Auto Stop, the mechanic shop that worked on my vehicle, were able to drop my transmission and replace the clutch and throw everything back together before the end of the day. So one way or another the gang had reunited and we were bound by the sweat of our brows to make it out of the state of Montana by the end of the night, we made it 20 miles from Wyoming before we camped for the night. None of us expected to be camping where we were yesterday night because the mechanic had us believing it couldn't happen in a day but happily the stars aligned in our favor and they finished it for us! I planned on pitching a tent behind the mechanic shop and Andrew and Adam were going to camp along the Madison river back in Ennis. But gladly we woke up in the van this morning, we quickly hit the road for Yellowstone and once we got in, I got licensed to fish, we snapped some photos of Ol' Faithful and hit the road for some fishing spots and unfortunately have not done much fishing on the account of everybody else and their mothers was fishing on most of the off the road areas of the river! So we are planning to hike in to some remote areas and creeks in the north eastern parts of the park on Sunday. But we did enough driving through scenic Yellowstone that we got to see some massive herds of bison as well as the occasional elk, and lots of scenic views as i mentioned! We also got stopped by park police because apparently the horns on the van resemble horns that can be found in Yellowstone off of a bison, so the park had to verify their origin by going through pictures that were taken from the trip of the van in different states! Then we need to get a permit so we aren't harassed every time we go into a national park. Its against the law to possess, without a permit, horns from any within the park. Fun stuff we learn every day! But for us, we are off to find a shady campsite in some National Forest Land or Bureau of Land Management Land just outside of Yellowstone, Good evening Gardiner!  

New Pressure Plate

Old Remains of Pressure Plate