West Yellowstone Travelodge

... 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.

... here at the perfect time of year to be really wowed by the waterfalls - at no other time of year would so much rain and snowmelt all converge to fill the rivers and falls with this volume of water!<br><br> <br>  Wildlife sightings today include bison, elk, Canadian geese, a beautiful blue bird that I may not have been able to get close enough to to get a clear shot, and an ...

... had tried to "snack" on a porcupine and had half a dozen quills in its right front paw, which slowed it up a bit and it was not a fully grown male. Still, no chance any of us were getting out of the car. It was only 50 metres away and closing. The watching opportunity was brilliant. The bear was loping along, stopping occassionaly to eat or to try to get the quills out of its paw. And all right in front of us. We wondered at one point if he had ...

... way - we also noted that wearing a helmet on a motorcycle is not law in Idaho and Montana. Our journey took us toward the town of Arco, close to the Crater of the Moon National Monument Park and the Idaho Experimental Center (where we believe that nuclear power was first provided to the local town), which looked like a cross between Area 51 and that place in the film where Close Encounters of the Third Kind was filmed (see the photos). We them ...

... before it slowly disappeared to build itself pressure to blow again sometime later. The Travellers three had decided we had had our share and headed with the other approx 3-5000 people to their cars, motorbikes, pushbikes, RV's and different forms of transportation to head further around the park or out depending on the choice each made. We planned to continue our circle of the Lower segment of the Park and back to West Yellowstone. This proved to be a bigger ...

... an early start or to set off. Weather reports last night had already made us change our plans - West Yellowstone where we were heading was forecast quite a bit of snow and there are "severe wind advisories" out for the whole region for tomorrow. So, here we are in Gardiner - the northern gate to Yellowstone, having gone round/through more sets of snow covered mountains. It was windy on the way down, Malc did his "movie driving ...

... they had the opportunity to put out food for the bears and wolves and then watch them come out and eat. They had a great time. We took Kelly to dinner at the 'Outpost,' and then drove into the park to see if we could spot anything. We did see some elk,a gray fox, bald eagles and some mule deer. Tomorrow, we're doing the 100 mile loop and hoping to see some bear and some bison.

... belt and adding more antifreeze I was ready to go get a bucket shower and shampoo by the river. It's always good to be able to get cleaned up after working on the van because of all the dirt and grease I would get on me.<br> Once I got cleaned up I headed back to Gardiner and parked near the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. After working most of the day I was really looking forward to seeing the park the next day.<br>