Yellowstone Revisit

Last year when we visited Yellowstone it was crowded and congested.  This year we are here more than a month later in the season.  The park is not crowded at all.  You can actually find places to park an RV.

Upper Falls

We never got to see the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the falls last summer because of the traffic congestion.  This year the parking lot was nearly empty.  Either it is the economy or I know many schools are already back in session so vacations are over for many people.  In any case, we finally got to see the most spectacular sight in Yellowstone.

My lovely bride.

The upper falls is smaller and is not surrounded with the yellow rock for which the park is named.  The lower falls is 300 feet.  Photos can't do it justice.  It is one of those things you have to see.  I would compare the beauty of the gorge to Bryce Canyon.  There are many colors displayed in the rock walls.  The deep turquoise green water adds to the effect.

Lower Falls

We also visited the Mud Volcano.  It is nothing too spectacular but when it was named it must have been. It was discovered in 1878 by some dude whose name I forget.  At that time there was a cone with mud shooting up into the air blanketing the trees around it.  Two years later the mud volcano blasted itself to death.  Now all that remains is a boiling pot of smelly water.

Mud Volcano

Next to the Mud volcano is what they call the Dragon's Mouth.  It certainly is descriptive of what you see and smell there.  There is a cave with yukkie gray water shooting out of it with blasts of steam and a roar with each blast.  The Dragon has very bad breath also.  Years ago an unidentified tourist gave it the name and ti stuck.  It certainly is more interesting than the Mud Volcano.

Dragon's Mouth (smelly)

We drove down past Yellowstone Lake and on to Teton NP.  On the way we passed a small stream where a moose was having his dinner.  We thought we had see the last of the moose for this year.  What a surprise.

We are camped in Teton's tonight.  Tomorrow we will go south on Rt 89 towards Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.   From there we will be going on to Colorado.  There are so many choices of routes there we haven't made up our mind where to go.   We will figure it out when we get there.

We are having difficulty with our Verizon mifi down this way.  It worked perfectly everywhere we went in Alaska.  Some places were very remote but we still had mifi.  Not so in the northwestern USA.  The thing is next to useless here.  It is slower than dial up when it does work.  I think I will look for a better option for next year.