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Day 20- Friday, July 12,  Camp: Flat Tops Wilderness, CO  A long driving day from Idaho to Colorado- Teton pass and sticker wrapped Wyoming sign, took one last picture with the Grand Teton, it was getting busy again so heading south to avoid the crowd, driving through the Red Desert, no service next 120 miles! It was one of the most desolate gravel roads I have ridden, there was only one car going the same way as I was. A few other cars in the opposite direction and nothing else! This desolate gravel road between Wyoming and Colorado reminded me of another desolate road between Colorado and New Mexico. The surprising discovery of Irish Canyon was the highlight of the road. First real civilization was cute little Maybell and its park. Camping at this elevation with very hot temperature was out of question so I looked for campgrounds at higher elevation and I found one, although it was a rough road, dirt steep road to the lake and camping at a little below 9000 ft. Did they inst...

Day 14- Saturday, July 6,  Camp: Lower Sunshine Reservoir, WY Today was Yellowstone. I woke up early morning from the campsite and didn’t have coffee just quick breakfast and hit the road. The view was spectacular and I made it quickly to the gate of Yellowstone so I was in early morning and it was very very enjoyable, because there wasn’t big crowd, after a couple hours of enjoying around seeing buy some and reindeer and beautiful lakes and Kaiser people show up with became too busy too crowded so I simply drove all the way to Eastgate and made it to Cody and campsite. I am planning to pay another visit and again I will try to be as early as possible. There is significant difference between 7 AM and 9 AM, it’s still national park and it works like city park when it’s crowded but when it’s quiet you see the difference and you see the real us the view outside national Park between Eastgate and Cody is very very interesting and unique. It’s like high desert mountain desert with river...