Day's 5 and 6- Yellowstone

Yellowstone is one of those places that is impossible to explain to someone who hasn't been there. Oh sure you hear all about how amazing it is, but until you actually go, no description will do it justice. Here's my cliff notes version. First off it's HUGE. It takes the better part of the day to drive around in it without stopping. Every five to ten Miles offers a drastically different yet equally amazing Vista. And every twenty Miles or so is a hotel with a supporting village of campgrounds, restaurants, gift shops and gas stations only to turn into wilderness again a few hundred feet away. Throughout the park there are natural oddities like the famous geysers, steam vents, bubbling mud pits, and cascading terraces of sulfuric acid eroded limestone. Here's a smattering of pictures I took:

bison meandering down the road

vast hillsides filled with downed pines from the 1988 fires

The laundry room where I did laundry

waterfalls

cascading terraces of eroded limestone and the Hot Springs that did the eroding

my tent. How I love my yellow tent

and me cold and tired in the campground bathroom at 8 in the morning.

Day's 5 and 6- Yellowstone

West Yellowstone, United States