Travelers Lodge West Yellowstone

... Die Suche nach einem Baeren haben wir noch nicht aufgegeben...

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) :-)

Yellowstone rocks! So was cooles haben wir noch selten gesehen...Wir haben heute erst einen kleinen Teil des Parkes besucht und sind bereits riesige Fans. Unglaublich, was die Natur hier zeigt. Man koennte stundenlang einfach dastehen und zusehen...und es gibt wahnsinnig viel zu sehen!

Leider ist seit gestern in Montana der Winter eingezogen, weshalb wir heute morgen zuerst unser Auto freischaufeln mussten...Krass, von ueber 30 Grad in Hawaii zu 0 Grad in ...

... critters, but I can't see 'em when I am back half a mile waiting. (end of rant)
So the ride did take me along the Yellowstone River and bucolic fisherpeople casting away. And this road, unlike the others was narrower and had no real distance until it dropped off into nothingness. More earpopping elevation changes.
But within the first 10 miles of entering the park I was in a traffic jam because a moose cow was feeding ...

... says). So I decided it was time to use the heated grips. OOOH, toasty. And finally made it over the heights amd begin the descent to warm, semi-arid plain.

The road to the park after Cody runs thru Shoshone Canyon with the Shoshone River dammed at the end to form an expansive lake. It is a very nice run thru the canyon, with 2 small tunnels to add a little extra.

You continue to ride beside ...

... fallen down, the mountain side looks as though it’s covered in matchsticks. Also, when the sides and top of a mountain have burned, the branchless trees still stand straight up, making the mountain look like it has a burr head!

We arrived at the Rustic Wagon RV Campsites & Cabins, a completely charming little RV park at the far edge of West Yellowstone. (West Yellowstone is probably about 3 square miles!) We got hooked up ...

... you can really find them. And we wanted to see his reaction to the sulfur smell. The terraces were better than I remember them and we walked around most of those accessible areas. A few small patches of snow were left with clear evidence of Zac's visit and we saw a pretty good variety of pools. Many different colours and many different stages in their life. But the size of the park, the (lack of) speed of our journey into it and the absence of any ...

... even gaan lopen, maar Alfred dacht dat het wat verder weg zou zijn, dus pakten we onze auto. Wat bleek...50 meter verderop zat er al 1. Hmmm, we worden al behoorlijk amerikaans :P...ok,ok, hierbij geeft Alfred dus toe dat Suus gelijk had...voor deze keer ;). Nadat terug te zijn op onze kamer bleek dat het presidentskandidaten vragen uur op TV is vanavond. Het is wel interessant om te zien hoe de verschillende zenders ermee omgaan: CNN lijkt neutraal, Fox is anti-democraten ...

Yellowstone Nationalpark Wir haben Idaho Falls in aller Fruehe verlassen, um moeglichst rasch in West Yellowstone einzutreffen und ein Zimmer zu suchen. Unsere Suche war schon nach kurzem von Erfolg gekroent, allerdings waren bis zum Abend hin praktisch alle Hotels / Motels ausgebucht. Wir haben also wiedereinmal Schwein gehabt! :-))) Den Rest unseres ersten Tages in West Yellowstone ...

... this morning was for a consistently cloudy day with some snow showers and low visability. As we left Livingston this was made abundantly clear as we had visability of about a mile, it looked like it was going to be a very brief visit before heading on before driving conditions worsened with dusk.

... chest was going to explode. The boys are going to "feed the bears" in about an hour so we'll get some pictures of that. Reese is being a trooper and isn't really into this whole "family fun time in the car and seeing the great outdoors..." There sure are alot of trees and nature. ;) ha! Anyway, we are all doing well. :)