Saturday, August 21, 2010

Yellowstone Nat'l Park


He is alive honest! He was actually sleeping beside the road.

Aren't we lovely? LOL We did find out the Continental divide is the line where rivers on one side flow south and the other side they flow north.

We managed to make both loops through Yellowstone in two days. Did lots of walking, climbing and riding in the truck. We saw buffalo, raven, osprey, chipmunks, a swan, pronghorn, a coyote and a small grizzly who ran right in front of our truck. Some of them I got pictures of others I either got caught up in the moment and didn't get my camera fast enough or in some cases I thought I took a picture of but in reviewing my pictures - I missed. Old Faithful and all the geysers were fascinating. Yellowstone is part desert, mountainous, plains and plateaus. We could see the areas that were destroyed by fire in 1988. We asked why the dead trees had not decayed and were told that because of the altitude decay is very slow. The ranger also said milk spoils much slower and bread never gets stale. Hmmm wonder if it will slow aging??? We have to move on to Provo, Utah tomorrow as the only RV park here has no room for us after tonight.

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