Got home around 4:00 on Monday, returned car, 3800kms! I am not much of a writer so I won’t try to explain but suffice it to say I would very much like to go back this way again and spend more time in Yellowstone.

Was driving through Walla Walla looking for a place to sleep, saw THIS! Yay, Mike Birbiglia jumped out one of those windows! In his sleep!

So many shirts to choose from….

Didn’t buy anything but really, really wanted this bowl, purpleheart with an inlay of real turquoise.

After breakfast I head further into the Sawtooth, it is an amazing place, I head off on an old unmanaged forestry road towards the town of Atlanta, rumoured to be the most remote town in the lower 48 states, it is 40 miles from the nearest paved road.

No Google maps reception out here so I follow the directions I was given carefully (the visitor centre lady at the highway said “Drive until you’ve about given up and you’ll just about be there.”) and drive for what seems a crazy long time, at least an hour, down a dirt road until finally I come around a bend and there is a town, unbelievable. I poke around, have a snack at the cafe and hike a bit, then head back out again. I have never been anywhere like Atlanta, it is odd and wonderful and twilight zoney and, as promised, amazingly remote.

Kim, my Airbnb host insisted I stop in Stanley at the Redfish Lake Lodge for breakfast, I do so and it is awesome.