We arrived in Hot Springs, SD after two days of driving from Yellowstone. Left Mammoth on Wednesday via the East Entrance. Spent at least a half an hour sitting on the road and checking out bison during two "bison jams." Cars just sit at a standstill while bison walk literally down the middle of the road. You don't dare get out of your car or you could risk being one of the two dozen who get gored by bison each year in Yellowstone. Stopped at the Mud Volcano area for about an hour to check out hot springs and mud pots.
We drove through Cody, WY in the afternoon and all decided that we could move there tomorrow! Loved the town, scenery, and wildlife. Not too sure about the winters though. Our drive took us through the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The entire area was just beautiful - grasslands, alpine meadows, forests. We camped at Porcupine Campground on Wed. night and the temp. got down to 29 degrees F. We froze!
Finally arrived in Hot Springs Thursday afternoon. It has been great to reconnect with our NPS friends, the Davila's, after six years. Today we spent the day touring Wind Cave National Park. Will share our day in Wind Cave tomorrow. It was amazing.
Gustavus Greetings!
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying following your adventures, especially wishing we had some of that sunshine as it is pouring here today!
The wildlife and scenery must be amazing.
We had a great trip up bay - hard to keep anyone on task of doing writing when there always seemed to be soemthing new to look at. Ranger Jeff was an extremely good naturalist.
Safe travels, Annie