September 29, 2008 – Monday
Yellowstone Park, WY
Today was quite a wonderful day. I was able to sleep in a little bit, not that time matters too much to me right now. Coffee was the first thing that helped to get me up, but I did sit in my hammock and just swing for a while as I watched stuff happen around camp.
Eventually, I climbed out and helped with some morning camp projects. We decided that we wanted to see Old Faithful and try for some internet and phone access to call some people and do some things. Even though we were already behind schedule, I do like tossing the schedule out the window, so we decided to stay in Yellowstone for two nights.
I packed up my computer and a few other things in my backpack and we headed to Old Faithful where we had lunch at a little snack bar and I had full phone signal for the first time in days which also meant that I had some chance of connecting to the internet as well. Yay! I wasn’t really able to email anything or even put up one of my blogs, but I was able to do some other important things; also, make a few phone calls to people who had been leaving me messages (even though all I did was leave messages back to them!). Sorry to all of you who needed or wanted something from me while I was disconnected for a while. I would say that it won’t happen again, but to the contrary, it probably and hopefully will.
Anyway, we hung out at Old Faithful until it blew its stack, erupted, brought the house down, um, whatever you want to call it… Then we took off for some more biking. It was a gorgeous day though it started out quite sunny and cold, with my chaps it was quite a bit warmer. We saw the Firehole Falls and some geysers and the Fountain Paint Pot and other stuff like buffalo,
moose, coyotes, etc. (Click here for more photos!) Before it got too late, however, we did want to get back to camp to make some dinner and build a fire. I stopped alongside the Continental Divide at 8000-or-so feet and collected some firewood that I strapped to my bike to bring back to burn. Nowhere in the campground is there wood to collect and burn; everyone else has combed the area.
Speaking of burning wood, the exciting challenge for tonight was to burn this huge log, from our campsite, in half. It probably took a good two hours or so and constant picking and reworking of the fire to get it there, but I made it! And now that my parents have gone to bed, I have the fire and three huge logs to burn, all to myself… It’s warm, at least!
And now, just as an add-on to the last blog story, I want to mention our last adventure in Greybull where we really finally rode horses. Again, to help Art & Kathy, my dad and I each hopped on a horse (mine was Catch ‘em, my dad’s was Super Sweet, Art had Gator) and rode them 6 miles to the new ranch from the old ranch. It was a pleasure ride, a first real experience riding a non-tame ranch horse ride, and a ride to help them out so that they only had 4 more horses to bring over by trailer later on. It was about a two hour ride and it was great. My butt still hurts from that trotting!
I have to close up for the night so that I can tend the fire and burn one down… as in a log of course… Chilly again, there will probably be frost on the cars tomorrow as there was this morning. At least we got our bikes on their trailers and we can head out first thing… After we have some coffee, of course.
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