September 13 We are at the Cody Wyoming Public Library to update our blog. We just spent the last week in Yellowstone National Park. It is an amazing place when you think of all that volcanic activity barely below the surface of the earth.

We saw Old Faithful erupt 4 times, and lots of other geysers, hot springs, mud pots and steam vents. There are much larger herds of Bison from our last visit, 10 years ago, and

We saw the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with beautiful waterfalls and yellow canyon walls.

one cannot drive anywhere in the park with out an "animal Jam" as they call it. We saw lots of Elk and some deer as well. We had a Bison visit our campsite munching on grass two feet from our camper.

 It is beautiful country, however, even in September the amount of tourist is unbelievable and often we could not find a place to park with many tour buses bringing thousands to the sights. Also the distances between the major sites is a long ways so we drove more than 600 miles during our stay. 


We went down to Grand Teton National Park one day with the Grand Teton Mts are so rugged and beautiful. We took a shuttle boat across Jenny Lake and hiked back 2.5 miles to the visitor Center - what views.

Laurie's cousin Ed Haukka found us on Facebook and since he is between jobs he decided to come over to see us from Salt Lake City. We were able to have supper 2 evenings and it was great catching up with him.