Gray Wolf Inn & Suites West Yellowstone

... Die Suche nach einem Baeren haben wir noch nicht aufgegeben...<br><br>Der Yellowstone National Park ist ganz klar das landschaftliche Highlight unserer bisherigen Reise. Das muss man den Amis lassen, sie haben zwar komische Politiker und finden die Schweiz nicht auf der Weltkarte, aber die Landschaft ist super geil. Wir werden ganz sicher nicht das letzte Mal hier sein (naechstes Mal aber mit Feldstecher und einer Kamera mit 300mm Objektiv) :-)<br>

Old Faithful didn't disappoint. <br><br>Saw a beautiful bison at sunset. <br><br>Good<br>riding but the traffic made it more exhausting than necessary.<br>Apparently Yellowstone National Park gets 30,000+ visitors PER DAY!<br><br>More to come later... just wanted to post pics now while i have high-speed connection.

... powerful upper and lower falls, twice the height of Niagara and we also saw our first fumaroles and mud pots, running a gauntlet of mosquitoes to walk the boardwalk to the Artists Paint Pots &#8211; red, orange, yellow and green mud and geyser pools.  We also kept up our wildflower spotting.  There are loads in the lower areas but in a week or so's time they&#8217;ll be out ...

... for missing out on the other eruption. Shortly after we decide to hang around, everything stops. Great, now we feel tormented by geyers. The colourful hot springs are also worth a mention. With un-manly names like Beautiful and Pretty, its hard to get too excited, but they were very intersting and very colourful. It is quite incredible the range and mix of colours vibrantly laid out in the springs. And eventually, Morning Glory, one of the ...

... highly active hydrothermal spots in Yellowstone. We walked along a wooden boardwalk and up over a small hill to look at each of the features, one by one, getting stuck at one point because we had to wait for a small herd of bison to move along out of our path! They seemed much more interested in grazing on the golden grass alongside the hot springs and pools than in engaging with us in any way, so we were soon able to overtake them and continue ...

Today was a long day. 12 hours from door to door. We left at about 9:30 and had to stop at West Yellowstone to get our park passes and sign the girls up for the junior ranger station. Then we headed into town and picked up our Virtual Tour Guide. This is an excellent tool and gives you lots of information about the park and features we highly recomend it - it even has soothing guitar music between the stops. My folks say ...

... the sheep had moved on, too bad. We were hope to see a sheep. We drove back to the Canyon Area and looked around the Visitor Center. Very informative about Yellowstone Volcano and how the geysers work and much more. I cannot remember it all. We stopped for ice cream, a nice treat, and headed back to camp early for a little rest. Day 30 - Yellowstone NP - July 20, 2008 - Sunday Drove to the Mammoth Hot ...

... later that I forgot to address them!! I'm sorry, I was working on about 2 hours of car sleep. . . Some of them I put partial addresses so I hope they still make it. Josh, Jodi and mr. man- I didn't put anything so you won't be getting that one. :( Sorry! More to come though, promise! Hope everyone is doing well! Kate

... from the Old Faithful area. We had about 50 minutes to kill before Old Faithful erupted so we walked the trail to check out the other geysers. We saw park rangers on their horses. They looked like Mounties. We walked all the way down to the Morning Glory Pool. It was really pretty with all different colors such as light blue, green, yellow, and orange. Then we walked back to catch Old Faithful and on the way we saw Grand Geyser erupt high into the sky. Then further back ...

... and then I got a couple of books at a used book store (2 books-$.35). Things were cheap here.<br> I got a bunch of stuff at a hardware store that had auto parts. I had checked the spark plug wires and saw that they were a big part of the problem. For those who don't know you use to run the engine when it was dark and you could see if the cables were bad by the flashing crossfire along the cables. Mine could have been lighting ...