Pictures From The Passenger Seat: Yellowstone Day 2

We have a little fun at the West Yellowstone KOA with the girls. One thing I really like is when RV parks have a good size dog park - bonus points if said dog park has obstacles for the dogs!!

Let me get on my soap box a minute here ...... When people travel with pets, they care a great deal for those pets. Generally, they care a lot for those pets. When RV parks have grass with LARGE SIGNS that say "do not let your dogs use the grass" or expect pets to just hold it from one end of the park to where the RV has designated for them to do their business, seriously? They're dogs, the whole outside world is their bathroom. Don't expect them to travel great distances in what they consider to be their bathroom to do their business in a corner. Also, if you're going to have a dog park, have a dog park. A 8x10 rock shrapnel fenced area right next to a huge fenced off grassy area that goes un-used and is intended for a group campfire. KOA's generally have great dog parks. There's an RV Park in Austin called La Hacienda RV Resort that has an amazing dog park. There's an RV Park in Wall, SD called Sleepy Hollow RV Park that has a nice big dog park too. The key to a great dog park is fenced room to run, poop pickup bags, a place to throw used bags and for all things holy, GRASS! Ok, enough of that.

Here's a video of us playing with one of our girls at the KOA in West Yellowstone. The girls loved this space very much!

Several times we'd be driving along and come to a pull-off. The audio tour we used, GyPSy Tour of Yellowstone, made all the difference in the world! It would give us information about the area we were in, where we were headed just based on our GPS reading, the maps had downloaded to my phone, which really helped since our cell service coverage in Yellowstone was unreliable. The GyPSy Tour would tell us of definitely places we'd want to stop and places that might be of interest. When we took that route, it would tell us what was on that route and what type of things we could look for.

The weather would be cold, windy, rainy, whatever. As we were driving the route around Yellowstone, we'd come to a pull-off, J would pull over and I'd hop out, camera in hand and start snapping amazingly beautiful shots. My camera isn't one of these National Geographic photographer cameras with the huge zoom lenses. We saw plenty of those and yeah, I'm sure their shots were perfect! But my little (favorite camera of all time) Nikon Coolpix CMOS has done nothing but impress me with its vivid colors and crispness. All the photos I'm posting were taken by me without any filters.

Alright, let me stop rambling and lets see what we saw in Day 2!!

The 2nd day in Yellowstone we saw the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and several wonderful waterfalls.

We started our day bright and early

Staying on the walkways is important ..... even if the boiling water is just "right next" to the walkway ....

Saw this guy first thing, he's beautiful - here's a closer look

Here's his sweeties a little further towards the trees

One of the side routes the GyPSy took us on found this amazing animal and some smaller gysers

Here he is closer

I think this side trip was an excellent direction. Thank you GyPSy!

One thing we noticed was any time we saw a large amount of cars, people in an area, that's where an animal was.

We came around a corner not far from this last stop and there was a large number of people along the road. We pulled up, I hopped out and went to see what it was. We found this sweet guy!

He hung out with us a couple minutes and then went about his business. I am thankful to be able to capture so many beautiful wildlife even just for a moment.

See that bridge? yeah, I climbed down an embankment to take these shots and hiked under the bridge to get these next shots. Did I mention I'm scared of bears?!