Day 29 - August 29, 2010

I'm back home again and since I took the red eye, it was a very long day. I was on the computer inside and out of the blue all you could hear was birds. These trees and the neighbour's back lawn were covered with a couple hundred little brown birds. I was hoping to get a pic of them just taking off but they were pretty settled in the trees and just kept squawking instead.

Day 28 - August 28, 2010

We got up early and left Yellowstone this morning to drive through Montana up to Calgary. Although the border held us up a bit with traffic we made it just before suppertime and surprised our niece and nephew who had no idea that we were coming. Unfortunately the only plane I could book that would get me back home in time for school was that night at 1 am so it was a quick surprise visit for me.

Day 27 - August 27, 2010

There are so many pictures I could post for this day. We went to the hot springs, mud pots, and geysers. We hiked down the canyon to the bottom of this waterfall, there was elk everywhere and we went swimming in the boiling river at Mammoth. This is a view of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone with the Lower Falls as it falls over 300 feet.

Day 26 - August 26, 2010

We made it! We arrived at Yellowstone National Park and ended up being pretty lucky. There was a crowd gathering at Old Faithful and not long after we joined them, it erupted! It only took us 2 years as last time we got all the way to the east gate and learned the roads are closed until May. We hiked around the rest of the geyser basin and got to see a number of others erupt as well, including Grand Geyser which is even more impressive, and a few bison wandering about.

Day 25 - August 25, 2010

The Badlands, it didn't take me much convincing to get Adam to agree to detour through the badlands. We even stopped and did some hiking into them but I was convinced there was going to be a rattlesnake in every crevice. Next stop was Mt. Rushmore and then it was onto Wyoming. We didn't get as far as we were hoping but we did make it to Buffalo.

Day 24 - August 24, 2010

Trucks! It's hard to only post one picture when there's so many different things in one day. Cars covered in like 100 bumper stickers, a truck piled so high on the roof and off the back bumper I don't know it was moving, 50 windmills in the middle of a corn field, the I-90 for 1200 km straight, corn fields for 800 of those kms! We made it to Sioux Falls, SD and there were so many semis on the road, they were 4 thick in places!

Day 23 - August 23, 2010

I believe this was Ohio. The sun was setting as we were driving into it and it was so blinding you couldn't see a thing. We were attempting to block it with sunglasses, visors, magazines, trucks, anything we could find but it was near impossible. It reminded me of the movie Constantine with Keanu Reeves where he is walking through the street in hell. We made it all the way to Toledo, Ohio today and paid every single annoying toll along the way, New York especially!

Day 22 - August 22, 2010

Moose, I was hoping to see them all day but these were the only ones in sight. We detoured off the interstate through New Hampshire and Vermont and this painted pair was were in a small town in Vermont. There was also another one painted like Van Gogh's Starry Night but I missed getting a picture. We left home this morning (twice) and made it to the edge of Vermont.