I've been SO excited to share this next post with you- thanks for logging on!
Yellowstone has been a bit of a dream of mine since I was a child, flipping through National Geographic with my dad, so that morning I woke up like a kid at Christmastime, totally unable to get back to sleep!
Here's the triumphant moment:
It was just SO cool. After being on the road for so long I wanted to stretch my legs at every pretty moment possible, and there were lots!
Gosh, I'm a goofball.
The park itself is about 3500 square miles of preserved forest lands- Native Americans had lived there for over 10,000 years but now there are some ranger stations and camping/lodges but mostly just amazing wildlife preserves and natural beauty. There are bears (including grizzlies- quite happy we didn't run into them!), deer, elk, bison and buffalo, as well as all the less dramatic but equally beautiful smaller fauna and birds, including lots of hawks and eagles.
I was so excited to get in and see this field of buffalo that I nearly fell out of the car when about 10 minutes we were held in a traffic jam by this:
Can you tell what that is? How about a different angle?
Oh yes, perhaps the second-most stubborn animal known to man (after yours truly) held us up for about 15 minutes before ambling off...amazing!I've gotta sign off here; I've got some pics saved up for part two- hiking, acid springs and Old Faithful- stayed tuned!
-Judy
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