Doug:
Monday 2/Jul/2012:

Woke up at 7, left the KOA a little after 8, found a shop around 9 that could check out the charging system. Yup, bad alternator. Ok, do it…. Small shop not around much in Butte. Walked over to Walmart and dink’d around for about an hour-ish. Went to subway and got some sammies, took em over and had a pik-nik next to 3 small (5’) fir trees putting out a tad bit of shade behind said Walmart. If we weren’t in Montana, it’d probably look a little strange (haha). Ate up our sammies (very good, BMT for me) then laid back, hands behind my head and looked at clouds for about ½ hr. That was actually pretty good stuff and made some of the frustration go away. Then walked in and back out of the dollar store (just a bit dodgy) and proceeded back to the trees for about another 45min, just chillin. Went back to the shop hung out for about another ½ hr and $270 later we were on the road yet again…. and charging! We pushed hard and got into Yellowstone in time to see Old Faithful pop off at 8:37pm +/- 10min. Kasey thought it was pretty cool, but Den & Ri were like, hmmm, I remember it being cooler last timer, (figures). Did see some buffalo crossing the road and everyone thought that was cool. Back out the park (very dark, very slow) and heading towards a place to stop for the night. Nothing exciting there, just slept.
(Highlight of the day: Lookin up at the clouds)