Retirement Travels

We stayed at a lovely RV Park in Alpine, WY which is southwest of the Grand Tetons. It was a lovely drive to and from the park with Jackson (Hole) in the middle. We spent a few days there mostly looking for that elusive moose which we found on the first day. There was a family hanging around a creek right off highway 26. We stopped early in the day and decided to drive back through later in the day where they were closer. We also got to see them stand up and move around a little. That bull didn't move too much, he stood up and stood still for awhile, walked by a tree and stood for awhile then moved a little more and laid back down. We found a boat launch and walked down by the Snake River. The colors in this area were stunning. It was hard to get some good pictures of the colors because we weren't out during the early morning hours. We stopped in Jackson (Hole) to check out the tourist shops and get a picture of us under the arch of antlers. Note: Jackson is one town, Jackson H

On Sunday our plan was to drive to Mammoth Hot Springs. In between Old Faithful and Madison, we took a drive on Firehole Lake Drive.  Firehole Falls We also saw this nest alongside the road. We also drove by Gibbon Falls. It was hard to take pictures of Mammoth Hot Springs because of the sun.  After leaving Mammoth Springs, we drove to Garnier, MT since it was only 5 miles so that we could see the NW gate to the park. From Garnier we headed back to Fishing Bridge via Tower Junction and Canyon. We checked out the Petrified Rock.

We spent a whole day at Old Faithful . The Visitor Center was full of information and spent a good deal of time gathering information for Casen's project. Old Faithful was scheduled to erupt at 1:15pm and we had some time. We decided to walk around the path and came up to Grand Geyser that was due to erupt between 1:08pm and 4:15pm. We decided to wait since we have never seen Grand erupt before. We ended up waiting a couple of hours but it was so worth it.  Grand Geyser is located in the Upper Geyser Basin. According the ranger, there are 16 geysers that share a plumbing system with Grand. When it erupts it has powerful bursts that shoot 150 to 200 feet in the air making it he tallest predictable geyser in the world. We learned what to look for before it erupts. Another geyser (Turban) erupts several times in between Grand's eruptions. The pool also has to be full with no visible rock edges showing. Grand's eruption lasts 9-12 minutes and consists of 1-4 bursts. We made ou

  We visited the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. We got pictures of the falls from the top and then took a hike down to the lower outlook to get some more pictures. Glancing down into the canyon

We left Cody to stay in Yellowstone N.P. for a week. Once in the east entrance the drive was beautiful and I was able to get a picture of Chimney Rock. We stayed in Fishing Bridge RV Park which was a lot bigger than I thought it would be. ad a lonely Bison in the park all day the second day we were there, Ernie named him Barry. 😂  We had a lonely Bison in the park all day the second day we were there, Ernie named him Barry. 😂  We went out several times in various spots and off-roads looking for wildlife. We did not see any wolves, but we did see a elk, bison and a bear.  Pretty common for the bison to stop traffic A bull elk in Hayden Valley and his harem Another bull elk between Old Faithful and West Thumb We took this one way road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower Junction, we came up on a bunch of cars and couldn't go around because it is a one way. They were all standing there with their cameras so we got out to take a look.