Yellowstone National Park

Friday, July 12th, 2013 17:00

This is our fourth trip to Yellowstone National Park and the shortest by far. We entered the park about 10:30 A.M. through the West entrance and left the park about 12:30 P.M. via the East entrance. The park is as beautiful as ever but having seen everything before there was no need to visit the many spectacular sights. We were lucky enough to see a herd of wild bison plus two bison being chased down the road by a park ranger in his siren equipped pickup truck. We are now stopped for the evening at Buffalo Bill’s State Park in Cody, WY. This is a very large, wide open, beautifully maintained park with asphalt interior roads. All the sites with electricity were occupied so we are on our own power for the rest of this day and night. There is a nice breeze blowing though so we don’t think heat will be a concern. As usual for this trip so far, we have no Internet and no telephone service on our Straight Talk telephone, however, we do have telephone reception via our throw away AT&T and Verizon clamshell phones. We say throw away because they cost less than $15 each. Bill has managed to keep at least one phone working all the time. He is so wonderful to travel with. I am never concerned about our safety. As for tomorrow, we thought about visiting Buffalo Bill’s museum in Coty, however, we have elected to continue down the twisty two lane highway on our way to Sheraton, WY where we will pick up Interstate 90. It will be a travel day much like today was. Today had beautiful sights but difficult driving. I didn’t attempt driving at all today. Tomorrow should be easier driving with less beauty.