Cross Country Part 2

These flowers were amazing. They just popped up and there are fields and fields of them everywhere. I've never seen anything like it.
As we entered Yellowstone National Park the scenery and the wildlife became much more interesting. There was a lot of evidence of fairly recent as well as older wildfires. Note the bare trees. At the top of this tree is a bald Eagle's nest. Awesome!
And then there was HUGE buffalo just lying around on the side of the road. Although I did not want to test how wild or tame these unpredictable, and may I say MASSIVE, creatures were; Tim was more than willing to go in for the shot.
Yellowstone was a fantastic part of the trip but went by much too quickly. As we were already over 1/2 a day behind schedule we were only able to drive through Yellowstone and not stop too much. I did the driving nice and SLOW so that Tim could take lots of great pictures.
One of our stops in the park we thought was Old Faithful but turns out that we stopped at the "Fountain paint pots". These are a series of hydrothermal features including geysers, hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles. Basically a lot of hot and interestingly colored mud and water.
It did however make for some interesting pictures and upped the "educational" nature of our trip.
Tim enjoyed being able to get close to an active geyser. We soon found, a bit further down the road, that it wouldn't be as easy with Old Faithful.
WoW! All these people are waiting for the predictable and towering Old Faithful Geyser. I got a photo and then began to take video. I really found the number of people here to be the most impressive part of it though. All with camera's out.
Here it goes! It did shoot up over 100 feet. It was also exactly on time as predicted. And then it began to rain! It RAINED and RAINED and POURED! So we went into the nearby lodge for a bite to eat.

A typical Yellowstone meal: Mac and Cheese, Mashed potatoes, Buffalo meatloaf, and an Old Faithful ALE. Hearty, homey, and delicious

Next up in the Cross Country trip some famous politicians and well...nothing!