Yellowstone

Instead of fishing yesterday, we just sat here.  Watched the 9/11 ceremonies, finished one book, half way through another, watched a couple of movies and walked the dogs several times.

This morning, we rented a car and went into Yellowstone.  Yellowstone is the world's oldest national park, established in 1872.   We drove 181 miles over 7 hours.  The park was more crowded than the other two times we were here.  Traffic stopped on the road everywhere to look at wildlife.  We did see a lot of buffalo.  This first shot Doug took right out of the window.  He was on the road and you could have reached out and touched him.  Look at his eye looking at Doug.  The others were in various places in the park.

This is a shot of the Madison River when you first come in the West Entrance to the Park.

These are at one of the many geysers in the park.  When you look the geysers it's easy to see that there are active volcanoes in this park.  Right after this photo, we realized Doug needed to buy a new shirt.  I have no idea what I did to it when I washed it back at Glacier, but I sure hope no other pieces of clothing got whatever this is on them.

We got to Old Faithful about 10 minutes before it went off.  We were lucky because the eruptions are about 90 minutes apart.  We sat away from the crowds and next to a man who was a Korean War Vet.  He's in Wyoming for a family reunion.

Here we are inside the Old Faithful Lodge.  I have a photo of us in the same spot from 2007 that I use as my wallpaper at work.  I'm glad to have a new one to use.

This is the Yellowstone River with mountains and buffalo in the background.

These are some of the beautiful waterfalls in the park.

This is a photo of a couple who were walking down to the falls as we were coming back up.  Doug says they reminded him of his Aunt Tress and Uncle Glenn.  They did not bike in on that bicycle.

We had a great day in the park.  We're headed south tomorrow morning, bright and early.  Through Utah and towards Las Vegas.  We'll take our time and it will take us 2 days or so to get there.

"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water."  ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674.  What the heck did they know anyways?