Yellowstone 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.

... to hang around the world's most well known geyser.  However, we were so impressed with the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (do NOT miss clicking on this link!!) that we spent probably 90% of our day driving to and walking around the many overlooks of this one feature alone!<br><br> <br>  It is noteworthy that the entire park is names after the yellow walls of this canyon - eroded by ...

... was at some distance. You could certainly see what it was, but it was not lured to the cars and spent lots of time hiding in trees and behind rocks. A few pictures and we decided we had had enough. Drove on to Mammoth and stopped for a bit of a wake-me-up for the drive home. Finally decided to dig into some jerkey. Could not bring myself to make it the black, nasty looking locally made stuff (reminds me a lot of what the dog eats at home). Opted for the ...

... in 1989 and was still only just showing signs of recovery - apparently though such fires are necessary to keep the natural beauty of the area. We saw a pair of Ospreys, nesting atop of a telegraph pole, Bighorn sheep, Elk, and even Antelope. We stopped off in a small town called Stanley (popn 100) on the Salmon River and found a delightful coffee house that looked like someone's front room, but offered WiFi, which allowed the Blog to be updated ...

... Karon returned with 1 hotdog and some wedges, and "suggested" we "don't ask about her experience" Well of course boys being boys had to ask! The girl serving the hot dogs was unable to speak English nor understand it either, Karon asked for 2 hot dogs about 3-4 times. The girl served one and said in her broken English, "That is the last one" and she asked out the back for more to be made, Karon asked for wedges and received ONE wedge! Had to ask again and then line up ...

... in the outside lane - this may be a six lane highway - probably needs the next exit which is 500'away! Then there's the language - we all know about potato/potato etc but what about this... Ketchup - katsup, Crisps - chips , Chips - French fries - TV ads are messages - and all those ones that have nearly got me into trouble like asking someone if they toast their "buns" on the BBQ how was I to know it meant a part of their anatomy? As we ...

... This evening we came back to the park for dinner. We went for a walk and stopped to talk to some folks we met last night. An older couple with their granddaughter Isabel(9). The boys ran to the playground with Isabel while Kelly and I talked with Keith, the grandfather. He was a great resource for places to go in our travels. He and his wife have been married for 53 years and have camped in all but about 3 states.

... down the road again about 2:30 I headed south on 89 towards Yellowstone which I was hoping to see tomorrow. I reached Gardiner but turned around and retrace my path back along the Yellowstone River until I found a good stopping place. I had additional car stuff to do. I took my tape player apart and cleaned the sprockets, then I fooled around with the antenna, which I kept hidden so it wouldn't look like a had a stereo. The ...