6/18/2009 Thursday, Rest Day, Yellowstone

By morning, I was feeling a little better, but not yet back to normal, so we drove to the Lake Lodge for Breakfast. This old 1920’s era lodge is built from huge timbers. The windows are mostly original. After breakfast, the diarrhea returned, so I crawled back into the tent where I stayed until 7:00 p.m.. This was really frustrating for me because I had hoped that our visit to Yellowstone would be the highlight of my trip. Inside the tent, I listened to the rain, watched the hailstones falling down my rail fly, and slept. Temperatures each night here dropped well below freezing at our 8,000 ft. plus altitude.