Hello fellow national park enthusiasts! I posted this last week but have added a few clarifications.

I’d like to bring to your attention a big change to the confusing entry requirements for Glacier National Park and Yosemite National Park starting this year.

National parks usually require some type of entrance fee unless you have an annual pass or a senior pass (i.e., America the Beautiful pass; there are a few other types of passes with which you might be familiar). This is still required at Glacier and Yosemite.

Starting this year—May 6 for Glacier and May 21 for Yosemite—through September 2021, both parks are requiring an additional entry reservation ticket.

LET ME REPEAT. To get into Glacier and Yosemite National Parks this summer (and most likely all future summers), you will need a park pass (or pay an entrance fee when you arrive) AND a reservation (with an entry reservation ticket in hand or on phone).

We all know this year, 2020, will go down as one of the most memorable, simply because everyone’s life has been upended one way or the other by the Covid-19 pandemic. We didn’t let that stop us, though, from allowing our long-in-the-making plans come to fruition. But first, a quick update on Madeline and Rachel.

Thank you for following Riveting Journey’s blog! When it comes to building this website, I’m a “Jack (or Jill) of All Trades, Master of None” ~ meaning that quirky things happen behind the scenes with this website that sneak up on me and can take me a little while to solve since I don’t know why they occur!

You might not have received a notification on the last couple of blogs that have been posted because of a widget on our website dropping out. I have fixed this, so I thought I’d post a quick note to you, hoping that you will receive notification of it in your email.

I apologize for this brief intrusion on your day, but I hope you will enjoy our two latest posts: Our Stay at “Unhenge Park”! and To Fall In Love With A Rainforest.

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Installing the two 6v Trojan Golf Cart batteries, which are heavy as heck, is a chore at best. I had to put the battery box on the tongue, grab the strap and hook up a battery, hoist it up and over the weight bars adjustment towers and maneuver into the box.  After that, do it again.

After hooking up all the loose wires from the solar set up, I flipped the switch and watched as the meter came to life and shortly started showing amps and volts going into my batteries. SUCCESS for sure.