We drove early from Salt Lake City Utah to Idaho Falls. The drive was really pretty. There were endless green rolling planes of agriculture. Everything looked so alive. I don't know if its this part of the country that just looks like that or if its just the season. The first stop was Idaho Falls. Honestly i think we stopped there to re-fuel and stretch our legs before the next three hour drive to Yellowstone National Park. The reason I say, it that really the geese were more interesting than the falls we saw. The falls are some crappy man made thing... not so much for looking as it is for hydroelectric power, and for that I guess I can respect what they have done. Although, as far as a place to sight see.... feel free to pass it up on your trip through Idaho!

 

Next we stopped in Jacksonhole Wyoming. A tour spot for skiiing and backpacking. Of the weirder things that happened this trip is I ran into Danielle Varns from middle school and High school. I had not seen her in more than 10 years. In 8th grade she was my best friend. Strangely we recognized one another right away when I stopped to admire her boyfriends big dog. She was backpacking and hanging out with her boyfriends family there in Jackson Hole WY. Crazy. All the way from Texas!

 

When we got up to the top of Yellowstone it was snowing, and pretty hard. Big flakes fell over Ol Faithful, but after about an hour the sun came out and the geyser burst putting on a nice little show in the sun for everyone.

 

We stopped at Yellowstone entrance, the Grand Teton mountain park. Then went on to the hot springs, followed by a visit to ol Faithful geyser.  I was not exactly impressed by this as much as some of the other things I saw Most notably the drive from Idaho to Wyoming.  The drive was almost not worth photographing at all, not that is was barren, but quite the opposite. To be honest I have never seen anything like it, and I don't think any photo could ever do it justice. The whole world looked to be teeming with life to me. As dead as the deserts and hillsides looked yesterday morning with their barren rock faces and little bits of life clinging to cliffs.... here everything crawled with animation. The hills themselves seemed to have life. It was strange, and the feeling it bestowed upon me from it all was almost amorous.


I tried to confine myself to getting the gist of it with pictures or catching the occtional life with my camera. I saw mostly bison, but we also saw an elk, and some geese, mallard ducks, and a hawk/eagle in flight carrying a big twig.

More Chinese buffet at lunch in Wyoming ( i ate mostly fruit, being pretty tired of Chinese dishes by now), but breakfast was a simple oatmeal, and dinner we ate at the Yellowstone cafeteria, I ate pretty light, so when we got to Montana we walked around a bit and then picked up a bit of fast food.

 Tonight we sleep here in Montana, and In the morning we will head back into Yellowstone to see more of the park. Its supposed to be sub-freezing and I didn't bring a jacket! I think I will wear everything I own tomorrow.