We’re getting jaded but making great memories. Yellowstone isn’t so much about grandeur as it is geology. There’s all of this bubbling and steaming and heaving going on. More than half the geysers in the world are here – over 500. Lots of wildlife but no bears or wolves yet. From the Grand Canyon to here, we’ve been perplexed at the city folk who stop in the middle of the road to snap a photo of a mule deer or buffalo. We’ve buffalo 5 miles from our house and can’t drive out the drive without stopping for deer. It makes for great traffic jams in the midst of the wilderness. Yesterday a herd of buffalo was dining on one side of the highway and people were stopping to take pictures, when they decided to try the grass on the other side of the highway. One at a time. Slowly. By the time we got up to the front of the line, there were 3 rangers directing traffic. If you stopped, the buffalo stopped. The ranger would encourage you to drive slowly forward and the buffalo would then walk slowly forward. After you passed, another buffalo would take his position in the middle of that lane. I think they knew exactly what they were doing and loving it!
A mangy Bison losing his coat for the summer and a lazy Elk laying down in the tall grass.
Old Faithful just starting up and one of many geysers just letting off steam.
It was cloudy yesterday, rained late in the evening, but it’s beautiful blue sky today on the Fourth of July. We’re going to do a “walk with the ranger” talk around noon. (Like the skiers at Vail and Aspen belonging to the “Crack o’ Noon Club”.) And will attend a wildlife presentation mid-afternoon tomorrow.
We’re going to stay here an extra day (four total) and then head home. We’ve been to Banff but not Glacier and we’ll be sorry to miss Glacier, but it will cut 12-1500 miles off the trip. I think we’ll make it a separate trip without all the stops in the South. This trip will still be very close to 6000 miles and 5 weeks.
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