Three Bear Lodge 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>

... und das in wenigen Tagen...von wegen Kulturschock auf einer Weltreise, bei uns ist es ein Temperaturschock :-)<br><br>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 :-)<br><br>Und da alle finden, wir sollten mehr Videos drehen, haben wir heute eine ganze Ladung gemacht :-)<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.

... was formed by an enormous volcanic eruption. It&#8217;s just so hard to describe it all&#8230;Then, when we saw our first bison, which took us over the top. What a great day, and we all gave CO his props for making the decision to go through the park to get to West Yellowstone, rather than take the highway. We also thanked Mother Nature for clearing the skies for us.<br><br>Speaking of Mother Nature, driving through the park there ...

... its all about banned performance enhancing drugs). Rather than run away when it saw our car, this thing was not frightened of us at all. Sure it checked out the car, but then it just loped alongside, watching us. Maybe watching Zac - after all, we did have the windows down and were hanging out them taking pitcures. And as suddenly as it had appeared, it left. It also left us feeling pretty thrilled with the experience. Sure there were elk, mule deer and ...

... a mis-print in the guidebook and it should read goose, because there were plenty of them on the waterways of Yellowstone Park. Whatever the explanation, we returned to our motel as the sun set on another otherwise perfect day in Yellowstone - perhaps the most awe-inspiring moose-free place we have visited here in the US. Certainly the most peaceful and re-invigorating, especially without the crowds and with only the warm autumn sun keeping us company.

... gt; Du coup on est tous les trois (Laurent, Elisa, Héléna) pour la journée : picnic au bord de la rivière, visite de geyser multicolores sans soleil :-( et en route pour le nord vers les sources chaudes de Mammoth Hot Springs...je n'ai pas trouvé de Mammouth et je me demande encore pourquoi cette appellation? Demain j'irais demander à un ranger. Nous avons trouvé un peu de soleil et des formes de rochers uniques sculptés par les dépôts des activités thermiques ...

... it! But at least it does arrive if somewhat late in the day. Whilst in Canada we posted some documents to New Hampshire in the States, "should take 5 days" they went "astray" we repeated the process and used priority mail - next day delivery at a cost of $30- they took 5 days!. Claiming a refund was simple until it came to collecting the refund - a cheque for dollars...ah, but we don't have a bank account - Canadian or American...nope ...

Helloooo.... Just checking in. Sorry I haven't been very good at updating this. Boo hiss, me...... A fire started yesterday a few miles from where we are staying. They have evacuated 3 campgrounds and closed a large area. It's 5% contained 2800 acres and the probability of it spreading is "high." We have pictures and ...

... 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 ...