Today we leave at Allen and Kat. Before we leave, we take a group picture with Allen’s oldtimers in it.
Oldtimers Allen
We stop in Victor to get gas. There we met Hondo Miller. He saw the Model T earlier, but wasn’t able to come to us then. He invited us to drive after his Ford Woody of 1949 to his t-shirt factory. They make t-shirts with very nice images there. This is one of only 11 factories that can use the Ford logo on shirts.
factory
factory team
Hondo was very enthusiastic about the World tour, so he wanted to drive with us for a while. Dirk-jan made a nice deal; Hondo could sit in the Model T, if Dirk-jan could drive the Woody. Hondo needed only 2 seconds to think about that and Dirk-jan and Joris jumped in the Woody.
Hondo in model T
After 60 miles Hondo still wasn’t bored of the Model T. He wanted to drive further with us. A good chance for Joris to drive in that nice car also. Later on Inge went to sit next to Dirk-jan in the Woody, and we entered a dirt road.
Woody off road
The dirt road lasted for 35 miles. The Woody had to cool down and get some extra gas regularly. After the dirt road it was time for Hondo to get back to the factory again (about 3 hours later). Hondo is so enthusiastic that he is thinking about joining the world tour for a few weeks.
We drive further towards Yellowstone National Park. When entering the park, we see a sign that tells us which campgrounds are still available. There is one campground (out of about 20) that is not full yet.
We drive quickly along the geysers quickly and have a coffee break.
mud geyser
view
On our way the road is blocked. We have to enter a parking lot. However there is no other route that leads to our campground, or we have to drive for many hours. Dirk-jan and Joris walk to the ranger to ask why the road is blocked. When the ranger sees them she becomes quite nervous: “Where is your car? We’ve got a Bear situation!”. She explained that a bear was walking around which caused trouble. We had to walk back to our car carefully. In about 5 minutes the road would be open again.
We arrived at the campground at 7.30 p.m. Unfortunately this campground now also had the sign “Full”. We had to leave the park again to find a campground 20 miles further.
late trip
A nice day of racing Yellowstone. We saw a lot of the park in a flash. We have driven 309 kilometers.
