Anyone can find information about Yellowstone online so I'm not going to go there. What we did find was that mid-September is a good time to see the park as the crowds are a manageable size, although the cold temperatures may contribute to the heavy cover of steam which hid many of the hot springs and geysers. That meant you had to hope for a brief gust of wind to clear the air long enough to get a picture of those beautiful blue hot springs and thick, bubbling mud pots.
Lunch was pricey, but we had a great bowl of Wisconsin cheese soup with an okay ham and cheese paninni (sp?) from the snack shop in the souvenir building. The thick, hot soup hit the spot after waiting on damp benches for Old Faithful to blow.
We enjoyed seeing all the different license plates from Maryland/New Jersey to Florida to the Yukon. There were almost as many languages being spoken and everyone at the park seemed to be enjoying themselves and chattered to friends and strangers alike.
Today we did the south loop which was a round trip of 148 miles, so tomorrow we'll do the north loop. We got a little snow today while in the higher elevations, so we're hoping that's the end of it. If it's going to start snowing, we're out of here! When everything you own is behind your truck, you don't like to take chances driving in bad weather. Utah's 90 degree temperatures look awfully good right now!
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