August 24, 2014

Still cold and rainy. Several weather reports say it's supposed to start clearing tomorrow and be nice on Tuesday.

That huge motorhome was noisy last night. Their heater sounds like a jet taking off and it kept waking me. So, about 7:00 I decided to just get up and see if the Junction Butte wolf pack were visible. When I got there, the people said there was a single wolf laying curled up out in the open. We watched it sleep for an hour. People came by and helped us watch. It was probably 2 miles or more away.

After a while, it sat up, howled a bit – and we faintly heard the pack answer. Then, it walked down the hill and out of sight behind another hill.

The only other things were a group of 3 bison swam across the Yellowstone River:

And an antelope posed for me:

This evening, a fox made the rounds through the campgound looking for ground squirrels.

It would stop and stand completely motionless for a minute before pouncing.

In contrast to the monster motorhome that was here last night, this camper is here tonight:

It is a couple from Austria. They shipped the camper to Argentina and then went to the southern tip of South America. From there, they drove all the way, except for going around the Panama Canal, to the Arctic Ocean in Alaska. They are now on their way to Baltimore to put the camper on a ship and head for home. They've been on the road for nearly a year now. My trailer, which is way bigger, got pretty small after 3 months last summer. I can't imagine living in that for a year.