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North America » United States » Montana » Gardiner September 21st 2011

Photos from this day at Yellowstonw National Park This was our daughter Celeste's birthday, and we celebrated her existence among the splendors of the first National Park in the world. She was our first child in our world, and a big reason why we smile when we see a waterfall or the night sky. Our children make the mountains more majestic, the seas more soothing and sometimes scary, the trees more friendly and the rocks more alive. They provide the sense for the maxim Leave No Trace. Since my back was still screaming at me, we didn't expect to do too much hiking for our shots, so most everything we got was quite near a road. The "Road" in Yellowstone can be described as a figure eight and that's what I'll use to describe our path ... read more

Yellowstone to Yosemite, Day 1

North America » United States » Montana » Bozeman September 20th 2011

Roosevelt Arch

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Photos from this day at Yellowstonw National Park Well, we started this YYNP trip with little or no expectations of everything going smoothly so we'd be ready to enjoy whatever happens. We arrived in Bozeman, Montana, anticipating a prolonged stay at the airline's customer service counter. Again we were not disappointed. Because of air-travel snafu we learned on our connecting flight in Denver that the airline screwed up our connections both coming and going. The only way they could correct the problem and still get us on the plane was to register us with special stow-away privileges or something. They told us the Yosemite leg of our trip was still messed up in their system so we should stop at customer service when we landed in Bozeman to get it corrected. Delta blamed US Airways and ... read more