Day 5 - Looks Like We Made It

After waking up in Sheridan after a horrible evening of sleep, we made our way to Yellowstone. Driving through Wyoming can be extremely boring and extremely exciting. Often, there are few trees, many steers, and more sky than a New Englander would ever know what to do with. But we took a very exciting adventure through the Big Horn Mountains and suddenly the scenery changed to trees, high climbs, and distant snow. Yes, some of the Big Horns were still snow capped, and I guess that's not unusual.



After the Big Horns, it was back to the Wyoming I had described earlier for a good 65 miles before we reached Cody for a Wally-World stop. Cody - the town founded by Buffalo Bill - is a tourist trap, and we managed to avoid it, but it was neat to see the downtown as well as the rodeo grandstand were they have rodeos everyday all summer long. Yee-haw!

After Cody, you drive through Buffalo Bill State Park and then the Shosone National Forest, so there is still a lot to look at as you anxiously await the following sign:



It's a beautiful place, and we've seen hardly any of it. I particularly enjoyed the views of and from Yellowstone Lake, and took a few shots of the surrounding area, including this one...



After visiting the Visitor Center and Museum near Fishing Bridge, we proceeded north to the sulfuric springs. It kind of smells similar to when I eat too many baked beans, but times 10 that if that is even possible. At this point, I was dragging from the poor night of sleep, and we skipped over some things after seeing the lower falls. We'll see the rest of the Falls another day, but we managed a couple good shots...



I haven't been able to upload these to Flickr due to a horrible WiFi connection, but I will update that whenever possible.

We checked into the KOA in West Yellowstone, Montana, increasing my visited states to 33 and counting.