Following are a few shots of Cody I took the day before. It's a nice little town of about 10,000. It is tourist destination town with lots of "authentic" western souvenir and clothing shops. It's a little too touristy to suit me, but that is just me. A lot of people must like it. You can sit on the porch of Buffalo Bill Cody's irma Hotel eating an overpriced hamburger while watching a staged gunfight in the street at the same time.
Cody's Irma Hotel
Yellowstone was great! This is the real thing. Nobody trying to take your tourist dollar, just nature at its best.
The National Park Service does a great job of looking after these parks that we all own. When you reach the age of 60 (well past that now), you can purchase a pass for $10 that will get you into any National Park for free. I bought mine in the Bad Lands.
Becky with Yellowstone Lake in the background.
Here's a picture of Cecil and Maria standing at the same spot that was taken several years earlier. I just happened to remember this photo that was posted a couple of years ago on this blog.
My plan was to take a drive through the park hitting all the major attractions before departing through the north gate. I wanted to visit Old Faithful, but was not going to wait an hour and a half to see it erupt. When we finally reached Old Faithful, we found a convenient parking spot, walked 200 yards through the trees and here is what we saw. Just like the Griswolds, we looked at each other said "check" and walked back to the car. The whole experience didn't last over 15 minutes.
Beauty everywhere.
Becky was hoping to see a buffalo. Well, we saw plenty. This big fellow came slowly walking up the road right beside the car.
Our last stop in the Park was Mammoth Springs.
We left the Park and made it to our final destination of Ft Smith, SD in plenty of time. Next time we go to Yellowstone we will stay several days and not try to see the whole Park at 55 mph.
No comments:
Post a Comment