Yellowstone, Day Two

Today is our last day at Yellowstone. We started our day fairly early. The night was cold, brrr chill. So it was nice to warm my feet and hands in the Toyota. We entered the park around 9:30 after running some errands and the sun had started to warm things up a bit.

Shortly after we entered the park we encountered a traffic back up. A line really, slow. So we spent the time talking and speculating about what it was that would cause such a delay. We concluded it was probably road construction in the park as we had encountered this before. You expect these things when you come to a place like Yellowstone.

After an hour of stop and go traffic we were able to see far enough ahead to spot the problem. Not construction, not a traffic accident, not an avalanche. A Buffalo. Walking down the middle of the road. Taking his time, evidently headed home. These are the moments we laugh about and cherish for a lifetime! It seems that in Yellowstone, the only traffic problems are the Buffalo, not humans. Each time we were slowed ( except for once that was construction) it was a Buffalo issue.

Today we drove the entire outer perimeter of the park, so we actually covered some area we had before but much we had not. First stop was Old Faithful. How can any decent American go to Yellowstone and not see Old Faithful? Seems Old Faithful just blew right before we pulled in so we got to hang out and wait for a little over an hour. Piece of Cake. True to the Park Rangers' prediction Old Faithful erupted at 12:12. We took lots of pictures and there was cheering from the crowd.

The rest of the day was spent driving, stopping, getting out of the car and snapping pictures. 270 in all just today! We saw more wildlife, LeHardy's Rapids, the mud volcano, Hayden Valley and another buffalo, Yellowstone lake and river, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Lots of waterfalls, Calcite Springs, Mammoth Hot Springs, Roaring Mountain and much more.

We are meeting lots of people. Today we met Nick, who is from London. He's touring our country on his motorbike then off to Argentina. How cool is that?

Whew... I'm tired.

Back at the KOA we had decided to let the KOA people do the cooking and had Sundown supper here. A little posting, emailing and blogging and it's time for bed!

Tomorrow,,, no plan yet.

Till then,

Peace and LoVe,