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Long-Awaited Yellowstone Pictures

Well, it's been almost a month since I went with Meegaa to Yellowstone, but I just haven't had time to fiddle around with pictures because I've had so many other things to do (see entry entitled "Lists" for details). I finally decided to hang out in the lab long enough to get these done. I'm on my third CD now. Let's see if I can finish before this album ends. Without further ado, here are the pictures. (Oh, the first picture is of Jackson, by the way... a lovely view from the road.)

You've got to take advantage of bears posing ferociously on the streets of Jackson Hole.

Jackson Hole totally fed my curiousity for rustic decor. This store sold ugly chairs made from twigs and horns for over $1500!

Meegaa and I wanted to go cheap on our trip, so I discovered the value of hostels. This is a hostel in Driggs, ID. Everything in Driggs was closed when we got there at 7:00 pm. So Meegaa chatted on the phone and I read a harlequin romance from the bookshelf.

Here's where we finally get to Yellowstone. I'll just let you enjoy the pictures on this one.

These next three images might need a little explanation. We saw these amazing lillypad ponds. Neither of us had ever seen lillypads before, so we wanted a flower. I climbed into the pond to get one. We stuck it in my Nalgene and kept it the rest of the trip.

There were so many great signs at Yellowstone, such as this one:

After we left Yellowstone the first day, we traveled on the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway, so I could earn some money for work. This is what it looked like:

This was a really great house we saw. At first, we thought it was a ship, sailing on the prairies of Wyoming, but it turned out to be a house. We tried to get up closer to the house, but there was a no trespassing sign, and I obey laws.

This is the Buffalo Bill Cody Reservoir:

We spent the night in Cody, Wyoming at a very overpriced Motor Lodge. The next morning, we drove the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway.

After stopping to take some pictures, we found ourselves following this truck for many miles. The sun kept reflecting off the shiny stuff in the bed of his truck. We couldn't figure it out. It began to fascinate us, and we didn't want to stop anywhere for fear that we would lose sight of the truck. Eventually, we did stop for lunch.

This is where we had lunch - on the Beartooth Highway, an All-American Road. I had a buffalo burger. It was my first (quite tastey).

We entered Yellowstone again, although we took considerably less photos on this last day, but here's one of Tower Falls.

Then, to our great happiness, as we came down from the viewing point, what should be in the parking lot except our favorite truck. It was much more of a tourist attraction than the falls. We weren't the only ones taking pictures.

The last thing we saw was Mammoth Hot Springs. I would've loved to climb all over them, but there are lots of pathways that you have to follow. It was kind of disappointing that way.

Well, that's pretty much it. I took some pictures of bison, bears, and elk, but mostly for Meegaa to show her friends. I don't really care about showing my friends stuff like that. I'd rather show them a picture of Old Faithful Inn - cause it's cool and an example of national park rustic.

That didn't take too long at all - I still have plenty of CD to hear. Well, thanks for stopping by!