Yellowstone Pictures

Day 27

We awoke early for a day full of touring in Yellowstone before the 525 mile drive to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The night at the lodge was restful, we slept with the windows cracked and you could hear the wolves howling all night. We explored the thermal features of Yellowstone and enjoyed all the animal sightings throughout the day. We did have one interesting encounter with a Bison that was very close to the trail that we had taken to an area called the paint pots. We had to walk next to it, 5-10 foot away or hike back up the hill, and around from where we had come (a long way). Roddy made it by first, brave man. I followed next thinking that Debbie and Janice were following, only to get next to the Bison and hear them yell for me to come back, it is a wonder they did not scare the Bison enough for it to gore me. Roddy, I and the rest of the crowd that had gathered had a good laugh at them stuck on the other side of the Bison from us. One older lady was upset that we were trying to get them to walk that close to the Bison, so I explained that it was chained to a tree and could not reach them if they stayed on the path. The lady and her husband got brave and decided to take her picture close to the Bison. Just as she stepped on the path near it, the Bison walked towards her and she noticed that there was no chain. I have never seen anyone move that fast in my life, all I saw was a blur as she ran by yelling “You said it was tied up”, she had no sense of humor. Meanwhile back on the hill, the girls decided to make a run for it, so when Janice said let’s go, Debbie took off and ran by the beast only to find out that Janice had decided to sacrifice her to the Bison and was still at the top of the hill. By now it dawned on Janice that her plan had backfired, Debbie was still alive and she was still stuck on the hill. What a look she had on her face, it was one of those priceless scared looks. She finally got up her nerve and got down by the Bison. She tried to convince Debbie that she was the one that ran off and left her. Debbie finally figured it out and now there seems to be a trust issue between them. Yellowstone was as beautiful as Debbie and I had remembered and it brought back a lot of memories of a visit there with our sons, Luke and Matt when they were young. It seemed like we could see them as they were back then every place we went, we smiled a lot over those memories. We closed the day at Yellowstone watching Old Faithfull erupt. We left the park and drove through the Grand Tetons on our way to Cheyenne, Wyoming around 6:00 PM, we made the decision to get a bite to eat and drive on to Cheyenne, only to arrive at 2:30 AM, tired but now full of more memories of a day shared enjoying Gods work with good friends.

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Total Miles To Date: 11,038

Grey Wolf Inn - A+

Yellowstone - A++++