Live from Montpelier, ID

Another night, another Super 8 room with wifi...this time in Montpelier, Idaho, population ~2,800.  Good cable channels.  Dinner from the truck stop down the road.  The route here?  Through Yellowstone one last time, through Grand Teton National Park, through Jackson, WY, other small towns, and here we are in Idaho again.  Lola has been generally pretty good with occasional bouts of crankiness.  Tomorrow will bring us through Salt Lake and into Nevada somewhere.   So vacation is winding down.  Lots of photos were taken, good times had with friends, wonderful sights seen.  As I was telling Morgan earlier in the car, my feelings for Yellowstone (and by extension, national parks in general) are mixed - it's amazing and beautiful and I'm glad we preserve such places, but it seems so...staged?  One just drives from attraction to attraction, stopping to photograph animals and geysers and such, and the road is jammed to the gills during the times when it's appealing to visit.  The only way to get away from the crush is to go backcountry.  I suspect one can see equally beautiful sights without the crowds in a multitude of places that are not national parks.  Anyway, that's all I can muster for tonight.  Our route is roughly described by Yahoo Maps beta but may not work in Firefox.