Stowaway

Today was moving day to Gros Ventre Campground in Tetons National Park.  From Falls Campground in Swan Valley Idaho there are a couple of possible routes.  The shortest route involves crossing a couple of passes.  With a planned laundry and fuel stops it didn’t seem appropriate to connect the truck for towing the miles between, and issues with parking so Lynn drove the truck separately.  We traveled across Pine Creek Pass (6% grades) with little issue. It was raining and cloudy but traffic was light and the followers never really built up during the climb or decent.  The Laundromat in Victor was swamped, so laundry will have to wait.  On toward Teton Pass (10% grades, 2 run-away ramps, 25mph truck speed limit).  I was just getting into the steep part of the climb and noticed movement out of the corner of my eye.  I had a stowaway.  A chipmunk!  He became more active as we climbed the mountain and with nowhere to reasonably pull-off, we where in for the ride.  At the top of the mountain, I stopped to relieve the following traffic and the chipmunk went silently into hiding.  So off we go down the other side.  Now he gets active again running around in the cab.  By the time I get to the fuel stop he has again gone silent.  As I am pumping fuel he comes bounding out, running feverously around the fuel station and off somewhere never to Hobo again.  Works for me.  The remainder of the trip was much less eventful.

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