Home > Coast Guard Connection > Archives > 2008 > June > 26
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Yellowstone
After being away from the world of technology, we’re finally at a campsite that’s close enough to one of the hotels with cell phone coverage! YES!
We’ve spent the last two days in Yellowstone and it’s absolutely beautiful! If you’ve ever been here, then you’ll know what I’m talking about, if not, just use your imagination!
The first day, we drove half of the great loop (a road that winds through Yellowstone and is divided in half so you only have to the upper or the lower loop). We drove the upper loop that day. We saw waterfalls, hot springs, elk, tons of bison, and two black bears!
The bison were so much at home, they would walk down the middle of the street minding their own business! Viewing the bears was my favorite part! However, so many people were around, that a park ranger kept yelling at everyone to stay 100 yards away from the bears. Thankfully, he or she was across a stream…but maybe they move fast, I just don’t know! The second bear we saw was close to the road and another park ranger kept people at bay. However, the bear snuck away by scampering up a tree. Of course, the boys wanted to become Junior Ranger’s at this park, so we started the tasks involved with that! Oh wait, before I forget, when we woke up the first full day at our campsite, a bison was strolling through. He didn’t care where he was, he just wanted to eat the lovely little flowers. And of course, while Mick was cooking a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs, a damned bird came along and stole half of the raw bacon!! What’s up with that? I guess that’s what happens when you’re in the wild.
On the second day, which is today, we knew we had to drive the lower loop and see Old Faithful. So we set out from our campsite, parked the RV near the north end of the park, only because we thought we were going to leave today. Not the case. We found Old Faithful and waited about 45 minutes for it to erupt. It was cool! The boys enjoyed it and ever since I was a small child, I’ve been hyping it up a bit, so it wasn’t as spectacular as I wanted it. But it was still shot the water high into the air. The boys became official Junior Park Rangers after the geyser show and we headed to Yellowstone Lake and then the Mud Volcano area. These hot springs were my favorite, only because mud was boiling and spurting. One was particularly called the Dragon’s Mouth. It looked like a dragon could be inside a cave blowing out smoke and making the growling noises. It it truly interesting how nature works.
We ended the day at a different campsite, only because it was too late to get started on the road. Thankfully, this campsite is close enough to have Internet connection! And to end a good day of site seeing, a rainbow arched across the sky!
Now for the quote of the park…we were visiting Steamboat Geyser and as Joey was peering at it from behind the fence I said, “Joey, that’s called Steamboat Geyser.” He replied by saying, “Is there a boat in there?” How cute is that?!?
Tomorrow we leave headed for Glacier National Park. I’m not sure if we’ll make it there in one day, but we’ll see. It’s been a long day, but a good one.
By the way, thank you to everyone for reading this and posting your comments! I enjoy it and so does my family!!!
