While at Yellowstone we boondocked two states away. Only ten miles outside of West Yellowstone, we were camping in the National Forest of Idaho. We had to cross a sliver of Montana to get to Wyoming and the main part of the park.

While camping in this dispersed camping area we meet some interesting people who also camped near us. One was a young man named Jay who after loosing his son at birth was taking a small heart shaped urn with his ashes with him to all the places he wanted to share with his son. It reminded me of the Martin Sheen movie about the Camino de Santiago (The Way). He was just the sweetest person and we all loved meeting him and hearing his story. He had a significant impact on us all. Thanks, Jay!

We also meet two young ladies who had just finished up an internship in the US and were traveling to some National Parks before heading back to England for their last year of college. After reading the bear aware warnings they were scared to setup their tent and were planning to just sleep in the car. We discussed what prompts bears to visit in the night, gave them some bear spray and let them setup their tent inside the U formation we had created with our three campers. The next morning, they had picked up and gone but left a thoughtful note thanking us for making them feel so welcome.

Don and Renee had a mishap with a window, and they had to replace it, on the day he planned to install it, he awoke to a small audience and a few people selling tickets to the show "What a pane" by Don Hoyt with chairs set up like a theatre show. We had a good laugh and the men got the job done.

In the dark sky of Idaho, we had to pleasure of viewing the NEOWISE comet. We couldn’t have picked a better place to view the comet if we had tried. We got some photographs of the comet with the mountains in the foreground. We also experimented with light painting the campers under the dark sky with the comet overhead. Light painting is when you take a small light and illuminate something in the foreground of a long exposure dark sky photograph. It is an interesting effect and if done correctly can deliver amazing results.

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