Glaciation and …
With the natural “old-growth forests, wind-swept prairies, ancient glaciers, and deep lakes” it is no wonder they consider this a world in itself. The ride through the park is on the famed -“Going to the Sun” road that will take you either west to east or east to west – the choice is yours.
For a world in itself it sure opened the doors wide to how small a world we are all riding. During my time in Yellowstone I met fellow Triumph rider – Rob and his family in a parking lot…and they were also headed to Glacier (put that with 5 campgrounds and all full what were the odds that we met up again just one row apart once I finally found a site).
The smallness continued as I rode into the last campground in hopes for an open site as they were all full… and for the last two campground I was circling within the with another Bonneville and BMW rider. So when I stopped to ask the camp host if there was anything left – well the universe stepped in again.
There were a couple other people waiting to talk with her and my two fellow camp hopefuls parked nearby when a man walked up and stated that he had paid for a site and did not need it anymore! Before the sentence was out of his mouth I glanced at my other two riders and asked the man – can we buy it from you! Thus the family – community site began. Josh, Cody and I all introduced ourselves and then rode off to site C-133 to set up camp.
After we got our site set up we were met by another rider – a woman on the road solo for two months…thus Valerie joined the family on site C-133. Then we were doing our dinners when a bicyclist rode up and asked if he could have a spot, thus Buddy became a part of the family.
Then I got a text from a fellow adv. world rider – Alex from Germany and he also became a part of our small world family. (Alex and I would be ride buddies the next day across Montana)!
Thank goodness they did not have rules to how many tents can set up on one site – because we sure filled it! I ended up extending a day and for day 2 it was just Josh, Cody, Alex and I. We did a small ride together into town for firewood, dinner and wine! We had a great community evening of riders and stories – the history of this area bringing people together as a meeting place sure continues. It was lovely.
Great comradery sounds like there was hardy room left on your site for a campfire !!!! 😂
We did a nice large campfire.
Hi Danell, It was amazing to read about the “family” you had on site C133. That must have been great fun for all of you! Love,
Aunt Maryann