Across the Plains

Here we are at the home stretch. It is a real bitter sweet feeling knowing that we are one day away from traveling back to our home sweet home. We all miss our beds, family and friends, but at the same time this trip has been planned in my mind since I was twelve and it's hard to believe it's almost over. We have seen so many amazing things and been to so many places but now we are heading to our final stop before home which is Craters of the Moon National Monument in Arco, ID. I am hoping my kids enjoy it as much as I did when I was growing up. In the last few days we have stopped in Rapid City to see Mt. Rushmore and then a stop at Yellowstone National Park. Mt. Rushmore was awe inspiring and interesting to learn about. It was interesting to find out that the idea was first put forward by the state historian who want to attract tourism to the Black Hills. Well, it was a good plan because there were plenty of tourists there to take a look at the hillside. We arrived at dusk at Yellowstone, which turned out great for seeing wild life. Upon entering the park we immediately saw pronghorn antelope. A little later we saw a huge herd of elk. When we got to camp it was dark so we setup and hit the hay. The next day we toured Yellowstone. We visited Old Faithful, the great prismatic spring, the black sands basin (never saw the black sand though), put our feet in the firehole river, the mud volcano and saw a lot of scenery from the car. On three separate occasions we saw bison right on the road. One of the bison was right outside Mindy's window. It was really amazing. Another enjoyable part of yellowstone was our only campfire of the trip with s'mores and enjoying the beautiful night sky with very little light pollution. We plan to go back to Yellowstone when we have more time with hiking boots and fishing poles. There is a TON of stuff to see and do there. Really cool place.


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Location:Yellowstone NP