BUFFALO BLOCKADE

Buffalo have the right of way in YS, and they seem to know it. A buffalo decided to use the road to go about whatever business he was on. And of course he wasn’t in any hurry. Just sauntering along with a line of 30 cars piled up behind him. In this RV, we have gotten used to watching the rear-view monitor for the pile-up behind us and pulling off when we need to. The buffalo didn’t have a camera on his behind but finally he got a clue and stepped off the road to the shoulder. As we went by, we got this shot. We did see lots of wildlife, in addition to hundreds of buffalo; we saw a field full of elk, huge pelicans, ducks, an eagle, an osprey and one bear. The bear was exactly far enough away – about a mile away across the river from us.

We saw the magnificent Yellowstone Falls, first from the rim of "The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone", then from the brink of the falls. The hike down to the brink was along a long, narrow, harrowing path with a sequence of switchbacks as far as the eye could see. The view of the falls from the platform on the brink was even worth the struggle back up to the parking lot. --Tom



The day we left Yellowstone, we drove 11 hours through Billings Idaho to Sheridan Wyoming. And three of those hours were in Yellowstone itself! That place is huge.