Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park

We have been hitting the famous parks of the west this week and will add another one to the list tomorrow, Grand Tetons National Park. On Saturday morning we got up and headed towards Glacier NP and drove through the park on the Going to the Sun Highway. Aptly named as you felt like you were headed above the clouds and to the sun. I know I said in the last blog that our drive from Jasper to Banff was the most spectacular drive we had done it has now been replaced by Going to the Sun Highway. A little scary, as there are no guardrails keeping you from falling thousands of feet down but truly breathtaking. A long with a ton of pictures we also got some great video. We added a new animal to our list of animal sightings....a Big Horn Sheep climbing up on a cliff.

Sunday we left St. Mary to begin our long trek through Montana to Wyoming. We saw our first cow crossing sign and then came up upon a cow on the side of the road. Free Range means literally that...all over the place, even the roads! The rest of the drive was pretty flat and empty. We stopped in Helena for some errand running, groceries etc. Then we continued on to Yellowstone. About 6 hours later we got the entrance of Yellowstone. We stayed in the the park last night right in the middle, about 1 1/2 hours from the entrance at Fishing Bridge. The cow incident didn't totally prepare us for the many bison we saw on the side of the road, this one decided to cross the road right in front of us, thankfully we had stopped to take a picture of him so no slammed brakes!

Today we spent the day driving all over the park. Our first spot was the Dragon Cauldron and Mud Volcano. There are hot springs throughout the park bubbling and spewing!! The smell of sulphur and the steam was a little much after a while but still very cool. On our way to see the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone we hit some traffic, there were rangers and tons of people looking up into the trees on the side of the road. Turns out a black bear had climbed up the tree!! I got a look at him but no good pictures. The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone was pretty spectacular, with multiple waterfalls and a couple of good viewing points to walk out and see the canyon from the rim.

The most famous spot in Yellowstone is of course Old Faithful, whose eruptions average every 92 minutes. We pulled in and went into the General Store and realized it was estimated to occur in 20 minutes so we walked over and sat on the edge to wait and see. It was spectacular!! Ted got pictures while I videotaped the whole thing!!

Now we are stowed away in our RV for the night in Moran WY. We will be going to the Grand Tetons tomorrow and then start making our trek towards Denver to pick up the Goodharts on Thursday!!!

Hope this finds everyone well!!!

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