We spent a night in Cody, which is the town right outside the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The town is best known for Buffalo Bill (William Cody). There was an entire museum dedicated to Buffalo Bill, but we did not have enough time to check it out. We woke up early the next morning and drove into Yellowstone, it was a gorgeous drive. Joe and I had no idea until we started driving into Yellowstone, how massive the park is. I also didn’t know how cold it was going to be, I actually thought that I might get to go swimming in one of the many lakes, but there was still snow on some of the mountains and some of the lakes were frozen over.
It took us about an hour after the entrance until we got to the turn off towards our campsite. By this part of the trip I had at least got the knack to make reservations before we got to a national park, because we had run into situations where all the campsites were full. Even in huge Yellowstone the first campsite I called was completely booked for 3 days straight. As we took the turnoff towards our campsite Joseph suddenly pulled over and I am thinking “oh shit not again”, thinking that it might be tire trouble again. It was not tire trouble for us but an accident that happened behind us. Joe said it was the weirdest thing, he watched it all happen in his side mirror. There was a van behind us and as we took a turn the van kept going straight into a tree, fortunately the couple in the van walked away from the accident. It was very strange.
We got to our campsite and checked in, we were right on one of the lakes. We set up shop and checked out the scenery right around our space. Joe BBQ’d and we played games, we knew we were going to be in Yellowstone for a few days so we could kick back the first night.
The next morning we woke up, made breakfast, and set out on the road. In the National Geographic book on National Parks, there was a planned out drive route to take in Yellowstone where we could explore all the Geysers (well not all of them, there are sooo many). We detached from the trailer and drove through the park to see Old Faithful. We were quite lucky because when we got there we found out we were only going to have to wait about half an hour to see Old Faithful blow! We walked around Old Faithful where there are other mineral pools and more small geysers. What is crazy is that the mineral pools look so beautiful and inviting but they are boiling hot and the chemical mixture could burn your skin. It was like this all over the park, you would see these gorgeous pools and want to touch them or get in them, but basically your face would melt off! After we walked around for a while we picked a good spot to watch Old Faithful blow. We got a lot of really good photos of it starting, it blowing, and then sputtering to a stop. We drove further down the main road and checked out more mineral pools and geysers. (check out the photos it is really hard to describe what they look like)
The next morning we woke up extra early to walk down to the lake and check out the sunrise. It was incredible, we watched the sun slowly rise over the mountains and the lake. It was totally worth waking up early. After we checked out the sunrise we got the wonderful pleasure of paying $2 to take a shower. The funny thing was, was my shower was this small hose spout where the water pressure was so high that I felt like the water was piercing my skin, and Joe’s shower was a fine Amazon mist! (but I should not complain about hot water for $2) From Yellowstone we were heading into Montana where we would make it to Glacier National Park.
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