After enjoying the national monument, we were off to Wyoming! During road trips, one typically reads a book, listens to music, or sleeps; but driving through the West, one is quite content to just look out the window. The landscape is so much more interesting than the Midwest. The mountains, forests, and rivers are always changing; there is always more beauty to behold around the bend. Through this countryside we headed for Yellowstone National Park. We saw Old Faithful in all her glory as well as many other geysers, hot springs, and mud pots.
It is here that we met up with my uncle and cousin. All of us hiked through the sulfur-smelling gas of the hot springs. In one place along the boardwalk, a plume of rotten egg-smelling gas was continuously blowing. Just before passing through this gross cloud, one would take a deep breath and hold it until you reached the other side. My cousin enjoyed showing us that he liked the smell; several times he walked into the smoke while plugging his nose. Ugh! The smell was terrible!
Driving through the park forests, one could see that recently a fire had burned down many trees, but new growth had appeared. This was exhilarating to appreciate.
Here we saw many buffalo; some were even walking through the campsite! A few times we had to stop our car to wait for a herd of bison to move past. For one herd that was the biggest we encountered, people were getting out of their vehicles to better pictures. My dad was out videotaping when a buffalo sauntered up behind him, but it just looked at him and walked away. It is all on tape too!
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