6-21-13 Update

YELLOWSTONE

I am having a hard time deciding what to say this week.  If you haven't been to Yellowstone, this is a must see.  We camped inside the park for five days.  We were both sad to leave yesterday.  We love the area so much we only moved about 50 miles east to Cody Wyoming.

Until the Yellowstone campground we have been staying in RV parks with full hookups.  I don't think we will be staying in RV parks very often anymore.

As with all new things there is a learning curve and we were worried that we might run out of water.  We went five days and still had some fresh water, but our grey tank was full.  We are camping in a state park without hooks up again for five days and I am hoping to get better on the water conservation.

Yellowstone National Park was the first American National Park.  The park was established in 1872,  mostly to preserve the world's largest collection of geysers.

This is "Old Faithful"  Probably the most famous site in the park.  I was disappointed,  not with the Geyser, that is still so predictable that the times it will blow are posted (within +/-  10 minutes), but with the hoards of people.  The majority of the park is all natural, as much as possible with the millions of tourists.  But the area around Old Faithful is huge parking lots, huge hotels, restaurants, shops.  That was the disappointing part, that and all the dumb asses that congregated all in one area.

The best view (and there are tons of them) was from Artist Point overlooking the Canyon.

The absolute coolest thing that I saw was the Mammoth Hot Springs

I can't even begin to describe these incredible things.  You will have to see them in person to get it.

Yellowstone National Park is 3,486 square miles.  It is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

It would be impossible to describe everything that we saw.  But here are some pictures.

  Until next time........