Blogs from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, North America - page 3

Day 1: Fly to Salt Lake City and 3 hrs drive to Idaho It was 96 degrees Fahrenheit when we landed at Salt Lake City at 4 pm. It was the beginning of our most coveted Yellowstone and Grand Teton trip. The turbulent flight was attributed to very hot weather. In fact, the pilot joked that he was glad the flight had brakes that worked! After a grocery stop for water and snacks, we drove 3 hours to Blackfoot in Idaho. The drive was through a barren but picturesque landscape with one big city Pocatello. The mantra that night was 'early to bed and early to rise'. Weather forecast for next 2 days was bad with 60 percent rain and thunderstorms and we just kept our fingers crossed! Day 2: Yellowstone (Old Faithful, Upper Geyser Basin, ... read more

Day 10 Victor to Kalispell As I mentioned previously, Ken suggested we leave at 6 this morning to make the most of our day. I attribute today’s success in Yellowstone National Park to this idea, but as I shall now demonstrate, implementation was a team effort. I volunteered to take the “futon” last night. I say “futon” because if it were a real futon, one could conceivably sleep on it. This was some sort of freak European couch that folded down into a flatter, less functional couch which the soul-less Scandinavian designers claimed you could sleep on. Ha. Sure. Maybe if you’re drunk or faced with the prospect of sleeping in cattle class on a 15 hour trans-Atlantic flight instead. Each section of this couch thing wasn’t overly comfortable to begin with and the sections were ... read more

Tuesday. 29 August, 2017 I was worried about getting a campsite in Yellowstone, but Kerry assured me there were plenty of walk-in sites available. We had a beautiful drive down from the campground to the north entrance at Gardner. At the gate the campgrounds were listed and showed which were already full and which had sites available. We decided Norris would be centrally located and was fairly close to the north entrance. Wouldn't you know, the road was under construction, with one lane traffic and long waits. We estimate it took us 45 minutes to go the 15 or so miles. I was much relieved to see that Norris CG had sites open when we arrived at last. But the fun was just beginning. The woman registering campers was on her second day of working there, ... read more

Woensdag 23 augustus 2017 In de buurt van het Yellowstone National Park, dat wil zeggen het plaatsje West-Yellowstone, Montana, was geen redelijk geprijsde accomodatie te vinden, dus het beginpunt van vandaag is Rexburg, Idaho. Om acht uur eerst Ella en Stan ophalen, die op een kwartier in de goede richting bij mensen thuis slapen (Airbnb), letterlijk in the middle of nowhere, midden in uitgestrekte suikerbietvelden. Vanaf daar is het zo'n anderhalf uur rijden tot West-Yellowstone. Bij het Visitors Center een toegangskaart gekocht - het is per auto, dus dat scheelt - en foldertjes meegenomen met details van wandelroutes. Aangekomen bij de toegangspoort blijkt het heel druk te zijn, rijen met auto's. Onderweg lijkt dat mee te vallen, maar na een paar mijl vormt zich al een file. En het is zo'n 20 kilometer naar de eerste ... read more

Mileage – 226.5 We left Cody and headed North to get on what we thought was the Beartooth highway. The road was curvy, switchback curvy. The speed limit 65. Really, we would have been squealing tires if we had gone that fast. We stopped at Dead Indian Summit. It is named that because the Indians had to leave one of their wounded there, which the Calvary killed. We were on the open range and open it was. We encountered a few cows on the road. I guess they thought the grass was greener on the other side. We saw a lot of mountains and rock formations along the windy road. Well, it turns out we weren’t on the Beartooth highway but on the Dead Indian Summit scenic highway. We did join the Beartooth highway though and ... read more