Earlier that year, when I was in Minot, one of the guys in my squadron strongly suggested that, on my drive back to Minot, I should go through Yellowstone National Park. But as you can see from the photograph above, while the suggestion was a good one, it was a bad one for this time of year. Too much snow.
We headed past Jackson Hole and then continued into the Park. However, the road began to narrow because of the amount of snow all around. Finally, at a filling station that was not open, the road ended. This was as far as it was plowed. A few dogs came out and barked at us when we were forced to turn around and retrace our route. We lost several hours going this way.
The best we could figure, looking at our maps, was to go west and then north, around the Park on the Utah side, to Montana. The roads were littered with pot holes, making for a very frustrating drive; and it was at night. We stopped at one west entrance to the Park to pee on a snow bank (there was no open restroom), and Tim used a phone booth to call his family. Then we drove on to Montana, found a motel late at night, and stayed there, realizing that we were well behind when we needed to get to Minot.
We were starting to get frustrated by the delays and all of the extra driving we'd had to do.
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