Hillcrest Cottages Gardiner

Der absolute Hammer...auch unser zweiter, dritter und vierter Tag im Yellowstone waren traumhaft, unbeschreiblich, spannend und dieses Mal hat sogar das Wetter mitgespielt. Wir haetten locker 1000 Fotos machen koennen, haben uns aber auf 200 beschraenkt :-) Wir haben Hunderte von Bisons (Amerikanische Bueffel), unzaehlige Elche, ca. 10 Koyoten, Springboecke, Gaense, Voegel, Squirrels, etc. gesehen. Die Elche hier sehen zwar eher wie grosse Hirsche aus, aber ...

... und das in wenigen Tagen...von wegen Kulturschock auf einer Weltreise, bei uns ist es ein Temperaturschock :-)

Jedenfalls dachten wir, unser California Rental Car hat sowieso nur Sommerpneus. Heute morgen haben wir aber festgestellt, dass alle anderen nur Sommerpneus haben und unser California Auto sogar bereit ist fuer die Passfahrten im Schnee :-)

Und da alle finden, wir sollten mehr Videos drehen, haben wir heute eine ganze Ladung gemacht :-)

Old Faithful didn't disappoint.

Saw a beautiful bison at sunset.

Good riding but the traffic made it more exhausting than necessary. Apparently Yellowstone National Park gets 30,000+ visitors PER DAY!

More to come later... just wanted to post pics now while i have high-speed connection.

... north. Drove slowly through Yellowstone National Park, lots of road construction delays. Saw some buffalo and elk, were awed by the scenery. Exited through north gate for the first time, loved Gardiner and the drive north through Montana. Will spend the weekend near Glacier National Park.

... down the tent, made PB&Js, and packed up.
- Got our Glacier NP stamps in our NP Passports. Iris bought into the trend and got a Passport book too.
- Christen tried huckleberry fudge at the gift shop because all we’d seen were signs for huckleberries, and we really didn’t know what they were. For the curious, it tasted very similar to a blueberry. The mystery is over.
- Iris ...

... eten, het leuke was om te zien dat iedereen respectvol afstand hield van het dier. Als deze 1 meter verder ging zoeken, zag je ook alle mensen een meter opschuiven....heel grappig. We zijn een hele tijd gewoon blijven kijken om te zien hoe de beer in de grond zat te graven opzoek naar eten. Echter, na een half uur was het wel eens tijd om verder te gaan. We gingen richtig het grote Yellowstone meer. Aan de rand daarvan was ...

... naaldbossen tot uitgestrekte prairi met meanderende beken en rivieren. In de uitgestrekte priari's hebben we verschilende herten en gazlen gespot. Plotseling zagen we langs de weg een soort vos zitten. Het beestje was niet bang hij liep gewoon langs onze auto alsof we niet bestonden. Het bleek een cyoti te zijn. We dachten dat de bizon vrij bijzonder was...dat was het opzicht natuurlijk ook...maar er bleken overal kuddes van bizons rond te ...

... creatures in the Lamar Valley. We were able to watch for a half hour or more. Bison have a thunderous, rumbling bellow/growl. Who knew? We saw multiple generations of them hanging around, rolling in the dirt, running, head-butting and splashing in the river. It's an image I'll have for the rest of my life. Our afternoon was spent on the Beartooth Highway - surely the most impressive road in the United States. Our historian ...

... ever. He asked where we were from (Toronto or Vancouver?) and he wanted to know if there were any Chinese people there. When I said yes he said, "Wow, there are Chinese people everywhere!" which I thought was cute. When we left he came out after us and told us to sleep well. When we got back to the hotel Dad and Mo crashed but I stayed up to watch the fire works which could be seen from in front of our motel.

... was in a cabinet I built behind the drivers seat so I could operate it by reaching behind the back of the seat but it was concealed behind a curtain. In response to the colder weather I had to do some maintenance on my heater. The heater controls no longer worked and I had to put on a petcock in line with the heater hose and would turn it on and off manually by opening up the petcock or closing it. After putting on a new ...