Friday, September 19, 2008

Day 7 - Jellystone

The "Crazy Woman Saloon" in Dayton, Wyoming. There were parking spaces for brooms right next to the truck.This was the view from US-14 going west into the Big Horn National Forest. It may be the coolest road in the world, it was actually scary to drive up it. Highly recommended.
Yep, there were cows on the mountain. Why not?
View from the top of Big Horn National Forest. In some ways, it was better than Yellowstone. There, I said it.
View "coming down" (physically) from Big Horn. Something tells me there's treasure in this thing.
Perhaps the highlight of the trip for Shelly. This was in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. Why is this suprising? Wyoming might be the only state that has more guns than mosquitos.
On Interstate 90 heading west to Cody, Wyoming we saw a large black bird on the side of the road. We stopped, I missed the picture of the black bird and took this picture of what I thought was a small man (okay, a man with a beak) on top of the telephone pole. It's a golden eagle. They are big. Go outside and look at a telephone pole, then look at this picture again.
This is a mile or two inside of Yellowstone. That's snow on the mountain in the background!
It can be slow going in Yellowstone. Blame the buffalo (incidently, they looked quite tasty).
No, this is not a crow. It's a raven, waiting for someone to drop food at the Old Faithful Lodge. It was suprising (and a little unsettling) how much bigger than a crow they are. A group of ravens (a group of ravens is called a murder) caused quite a stir when they carried off a small french woman while we were waiting for Old Faithful to do it's thing. Oh wait, that didn't actually happen.
Old Faithful. I'm not sure it's either, I need proof. Oh, it smells like farts.
Lots of stuff gives off steam in Yellowstone. What's the deal with that?
In one of the native american tongues (I forget which one) "Yellowstone" means "land of water, steam and rocks".
These geese have had enough of this crap and are getting the hell out.
The last picture on the way out of Yellowstone. Staying in Idaho Falls, Idaho then on to Oregon...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

HELPFUL HINTS by HELOJEANS: When you went through the Lincoln(aka Miss Tuiti Fruiti) Library did they let you into the room where they keep the dresses which Miss TF wore when they played dress-up? I hope you are trying your best to upgrade Shelly's presidential preferences (past & present). If you see Hillary, tell her we miss her (she may be hiding behind one of those female whales you have been seeing everywhere.