Yellowstone

We left Glacier for Yellowstone early Friday July 6^th. The drive took most of the day and our campsite was still 35 miles from the north entrance, but we were going to be there for two full days. This is our 4^th trip to this National Park. It doesn't really change, but it is still, none the less, extremely beautiful. Saturday morning we started out early to arrive at the park before it got really full. The north entrance is something to see, the arch was erected in 1903 and is called The Roosevelt Entrance. We toured the west side of the park on Saturday. We drove all the way out to the West Glacier entrance to see it, too. We went all the way south and saw “Old Faithful” once again. Course if you have ever been there “Old Faithful” is not really faithfully on time. And for some reason it did not produce as spectular a show as we expected. Maybe it's because the west is sooo very dry.

You guessed it, "Old Faithful"
late as usual!!

 Sunday was our day to tour the east side of the park. Since we followed the normal beaten path we followed lots of others doing the same thing....wait what's that? an old dirt road, pitted and full of ruts. We took that road and saw amazing scenes. We drove up next to a buffalo so close Tom could have reached out and touched him.





 Nancy got out to take a few photos of wildflowers but when she stepped back she turned her ankle and stumbled, bruising her ego more than anything else. She had a few minor scrapes but she did get the photo of her wildflower. Our two days in the park were great but probably will be the last time we tour Yellowstone.

Nancy's twisted ankle flower

Field of "Twisted Ankle" flowers

Yellowstone Falls

A "mudpot" gyser