Down The Road A Piece ... in a 5th wheel: Yellowstone National Park and Old Faithful

Today our one goal was to see Old Faithful the most famous geyser at Yellowstone National Park. We saw the other sites that were of interest to us on Friday. I told Huli I bet it will take us two hours to go the 60 miles to get to Old Faithful. She should have bet me because it took us three hours to get there. The damn buffalo in the road caused numerous traffic delays. They need to arm the park service people with long cattle prods to get them off the road. When we finally arrived at Old Faithful we hit the general store to use the restroom and then walked over to the geyser. We learned the geyser was not set to erupt again for another hour and fifteen minutes. Instead of having steak back at the motorhome later that evening we decided to go over to the grill and have lunch instead since we would be getting home later than we originally thought. After lunch we went back to the geyser and waited another 30 minutes until we got what we came for. I took a few pictures and a video at the request of our older, more nostalgic son, Gabe. He told us today he remembered Old Faithful, The Mud Pits, and the burned trees that were caused by a large fire that occurred not too long before we came here in the 80's. Here are some pictures from today's journey. In the morning we leave on a seven hour trip to Coeur d' Alene, Idaho working our way west to Seattle. We will be in Salt Lake City on September 25th to see my favorite brother Skip and his wife Kara and daughter Ellie. In between Coeur d'Alene and Salt Lake we still have a few stops to make and things to see. After Salt Lake City we are going to do some serious driving to get home since we have seen these sites along the way before. We may even try staying at a Walmart parking lot which we have never done. We'll see. Here are the pictures and I hope the video for Gabe.

This picture shows the impact of the fires and the new growth coming in to replace the older burned trees. Today there is a controlled burn of around 1200 acres taking place in Yellowsonte. We saw signs saying it was controlled and not to report it.

We followed this bus for a couple of hours making our way to Old Faithful. They had stuff pile all over the top of this bus. In English Quetzal means two things. A currency in south america or a bird with very colorful plumage. I think they mean the later since the bus was hand painted purple.