To understand today’s adventure we need to start, well with last night. This was our first campground with no hookups, we also had no cell reception and really our first time fully off grid. We crashed around 9pm and around 12:30am the fun started. First some alarm was going off and it took us a good 15 min to figure out that the batter seemed to be really low 9.4V. We turned on the generator and the power jumped back up but it was quickly falling once we turned the generator off. The AC was off so we really didn’t understand what was drawing so much power. We turned off the generator and went back to sleep. A short 45min later the alarm was going off again, this time the battery was so low the generator wouldn’t start, so I turned on the engine to the vehicle and we started reading the manual. This led us to find the circuit breaks and we turned everything off. We turned off the generator and went to sleep again. Next alarm was at 2:30am, now we realized the alarm was coming from the freezer saying that we didn’t have power to maintain the temp, it was in auto, but we turned it off, turned the motor on for 15 min and then we went back to sleep. 4:30am repeat and then finally 7am repeat. We decided to let everyone catch an extra hour of sleep and we got up around 8am.

We decided to head straight for the RV shop at fishing village, they checked out the batteries and everything checked out ok. They think it’s because yesterday was cloudy and the batteries didn’t have enough charge, but to me it just didn’t make sense why the power was dropping so fast. Julie went on a coffee run and to exchange some gifts.

Now on to our adventure to Mammoth Hot Springs. The hot springs were down a windy twisty mountain road and at the end was the village, sadly when we got there was no parking. We went back up the hill and parked in a pull out and then walked down to the springs. We  walked around the springs, took a bunch of photos. They were very pretty but they stunk a lot. Chicken liked how the hot water was pouring down the rocks that looked like stairs; we got a family photo in front of the steps. After our hike we went down to the village and got some ice cream. The ice cream was extremely delicious with unique huckelberry flavours. After our treat we made the trek but up the hill to the RV. From there we headed out towards the west entrance. One the way out we got to see some elk way off in the distance. We got to the “scenic” Wagon Wheel RV park in West Yellowstone, MT. Tomorrow is our last in Yellowstone and will be filled with a trip to see the gysers and then head out to Grand Teton.