Blogs from Wyoming, United States, North America - page 9

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

Day 9 Golden to Victor Wyoming. -sniff- Hmmm. Uhh, well I know it’s home to the Union Pacific’s primary hub in Cheyenne (of COURSE I would know that) and um, it’s big and open and most of all empty as far as I could tell. Our drive north from the Denver area to Victor would take us through much of the south western portion of Wyoming, including such notable settlements as Laramie, Rawlins, and Pinedale. I found it lightens the mood if you announce the upcoming town loudly in the same gravelly voice as the Rich Texan from The Simpsons. Like “LAIRRRR-AH-MEE, TWO MILES AHEAD, YEEEHAW!” Today there were no scenic stops planned whatsoever, just pure straight up driving. As such, our standards for what we found entertaining dropped significantly. For example, how funny is the ... read more

blog 08-31-17 Day of Rest We really needed it. We have been on the go for a long time and I think it just caught up with us. We both were tired so were the dogs so we just layed around most of the day doing odd and ends. Ginnie used the grinder on her dogs toes nails, and read her book. I took a walk to the river with Watson with all my gear, camera, lenses, chair, rain coat and water. I had fun watching the world go by and a great blue heron caught my attention for a while. He was standing on dead tree roots and he blended in perfectly. The river is beautiful as clear as it can be with different colored rocks on the bottom. The flowers were abundant and just ... read more

The day started in Bozeman, Montana, and finished in Idaho Falls, Idaho....yes it was a very long day....but what a beautiful day spent mainly in Wyoming. Can you visit the Yellowstone National Park in a single day. It's difficult, we did it...let say I have the felling we may have seen 75% of the main sights. The Yellowstone National Park is the first and I believe the biggest National Park in the United States. It is adjacent to Teton National Park, but that will be for another visit for us. Yellowstone is not only a first for Tanya, it's a first for me too...and what a place! We had no idea how beautiful is this place. It is end of August, and they still have tourists all over. But the park is so huge that it ... 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