Thursday, September 18, 2008

Yellowstone - SLC

Today we covered 428 miles, it took a bit over 8 hours to do. Not bad, almost 370 miles more then an avg day on our bikes.

Landon drove our Jetta up from SLC and met us in West Yellowstone. We shared a large pizza and beer in our three queen hotel room. Before long, we were wasted from the days events.

We were out of Montana and into the park by mid-morning. Our goal was to make it home by a reasonable hour, so much time was not spent sight seeing Yellowstone, but we were able to stop at a few hot spots and take some pictures.

The big one:


Pretty colors:


Where we found the above pretty colors:


It's just not the same when you are looking at it from a car, we both wished we were on our bikes:


Wildlife:


We exited Yellostone and quickly came upone one of our favorite places, the Tetons! Sadly, the point and shoot camera dosent quite capture what its really like to stand under these giant mountains:


The rest of the drive, was typical Wyoming. The official trail includes close to 200 miles of scenes like this, but on gravel and dirt roads, not pavement. Glad we skipped this part, to be honest:


We take off in the morning, more updates when we can!