Day 22 - Yellowstone National Park

We got to Yellowstone at about 8am the next morning and had breakfast in one of the general stores they had located throughout the park. We quickly hoofed that down because we were all keen to go and check out the sights and hopefully spot some bear or wolves! Literally 100m down the road and we saw our very first animal! It was a bison and it was huge!! It was just casually walking along the side of the road eating grass, and it didn't seemed phased by the groups of people that had pulled over to take photos of it...

After grabbing a few snapshots we continued along down the road towards Old Faithful the geyser, we stopped to take a few photos of some elks that were in the bushes, but didn't see any bears or wolves before reaching the geysers... We walked into the main foyer area to check what time they had predicted the next eruption to be, and we had just missed one! The next one wasn't for another two hours so we went and watched a documentary about the park and the geysers.. Once the movie had finished we went out side and someone had mentioned that one of the other geysers was just about to go off, so we quickly hurried off towards and managed to get there about 5 minutes before it went off! Afterwards we continued along the path, spotting multiple chipmunks running around and checking out a few of the thermal pools, before eventually arriving back at Old Faithful just before it was about to go off! Both geysers shot super-heated water about 90 foot in the air, it was pretty spectacular to see, especially knowing that the water had actually started its journey towards the surface years ago...

We then had another hours drive to exit the park, and were hoping that we would finally see some bears, but i guess we were just unlucky, either that or we had to spend more time going around the park... You could easily spend 3 weeks camping in the park and still not even see a quarter of it... We then pushed forward towards Salt Lake City to find our camp site for the night, if we managed to make it down to Albuquerque by the next night we would have made up the day we had lost earlier in the trip and arrive in Las Vegas on time for Matt's 21st birthday! We made it through to Salt Lake and decided to go to an all you can eat buffet... Adam died and went to heaven! They had absolutely everything there, from chicken parmigiana to roast lamb, not to mention their massive dessert bar! They had chocolate fountains, soft serve ice cream, even fairy floss! The best thing about it was that it only cost us $10 each haha! After eating twice our weight in food we drove back to the camp site and had an extremely good nights sleep haha!

Next stop... Albuquerque!

Mark