Hebgen Lake Mountain Inn 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.

It was a good thing we didn't have much to do today besides get ourselves to camp in West Yellowstone, because when we turned on the engine it told us there was "low oil pressure" and kept shutting off! Jim checked the oil level several times but all seemed in order, so we were stymied as to what possibly could be wrong! While he was poring over the owner&#8217;s ...

... to the point the gift shops contemplated scrapping all of their Morning Glory trinkets. They atributed the rapid colour change to the more than 300 earth tremors they had at Yellowstone in January. Thankfully its not that bad. They reckon people throw lots of stuff into the pools every year - so much so that they use what looks like a huge pool cleaner to fix the problem at the start of every season. From what we can figure out, that does not ...

... had offered us breathtaking views and impressive hydrothermal activity and we had barely scratched the surface of the park. We were running out of time and daylight though, so we were forced to head on to the western side of the park where the town of West Yellowstone offered food and lodging within spitting distance of the park's gates. West Yellowstone was a tourists village that was very clearly between seasons. The summertime visitors ...

... at Madison and went down the Geyser loop. The most impressive was Old Faithful of course and we had lunch at the Old Faithful Inn (deli lunch - very expensive - pack a lunch) but the lodge is cool and you have to see it to appreciate it. The most impressive drive was the firehole lake drive several geysers are availible right from the car. It rained and thunderstormed in the afternoon and it was pretty cool the temp ...

... a couple of hours to do some laundry and then headed across the street for a pizza at a place called "The Outpost". Pizza was good. We then went for a walk through Gardiner. In one yard we saw a herd of mule deer just taking it easy, not bothered by people or traffic. We headed back to our hotel as the sun was setting in the west and a full moon was rising in the east. *Tomorrow we're heading back into the Park to see Old Faithful.

... turquoise - it looks like a swimming pool. And as we continued to follow it the next morning into the Cache National Forest , we pulled over to the side of the road to drink our coffee (again, great coffee) as we watched kayakers and rafters shoot through some rapids on the river that ran by the road. Beautiful, cool air, sparkling river water. It was like a caricature of what you expect the Wild West to look like. And ...

... 5:03 - Experiencing some traffic because there's a big ****ing moose in the water. 7:52 - Just ate some hotdogs. I called Vicki at the food store. I was calm and cool and we actually had a great, normal conversation for a half an hour. It went really well and I'm so happy. Neither of us brought up Sunday night's conversation but I'm going to call her this weekend to see how things are. My plan is just take it slow, don't say any "I love you's", and just be her friend until ...

... cities where I travel and some put on a good and friendly face and others are Hadleyburgs (see Mark Twain). The first time I went downtown I had parked without paying the meter, a rather small sum. I came back and there was a ticket. But when I took it off I got the surprise of my life. It was a courtesy ticket welcoming me to town and asking me to pay next time I stopped-no fine. So that is what I did this time.<br ...