Chris has been bugging me for years to go to Yellowstone. In his Chris-fashion, of course. He has a way of subtley talking about it in glowing terms and reminscing about how he enjoyed his trip there when he was a child.<\/p>\n
He finds bits of trivia to bring into the conversation. “Did you know that inside Yellowstone is the cone of a volcano? that’s why it has geysers.”<\/p>\n
“Did you know that it’s the first national park ever? Ullyses Grant signed it into being a park even before Yosemite.”<\/p>\n
And finally, “Would you want to go there this fall? We could take a week and go there after school starts and the kids will not be crowding it.”<\/p>\n
The fact is that, while I enjoy nature, I prefer trips to places of deep history. Like…Paris! Old buildings and interesting shopping is my idea of highly enjoyable.<\/p>\n
Also, I like to see new things. I don’t want to read the same books again or vacation in the same place twice. The world is so full, and life is so short, I don’t want to retrace my steps.<\/p>\n
But I hadn’t been to Yellowstone. And it did sound pretty good. Yes, Chris, I would go.<\/p>\n
And we bought the books. And we gathered the maps. Chris handled the hotels, I handled the airfare. We were set.<\/p>\n
Yellowstone was unendingly amazing. We saw so many animals and we saw the kind of landscape you can see nowhere else.<\/p>\n
Old faithful was great, but the other geysers surpassed it.<\/p>\n
The buffalo were majestic. The moose were focussed on their meals. The bears were funny, and the elk were….Well…it’s was mating season for the elk.<\/p>\n
We saw antelopes, but they were not playing with any deer. Maybe that’s early in the season.<\/p>\n
The coyotes looked so much like dogs, we wished we could give them treats.<\/p>\n
Chris wanted to know if I would be willing to come back. I think so. It would not feel like retracing my steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chris has been bugging me for years to go to Yellowstone. In his Chris-fashion, of course. He has a way of subtley talking about it in glowing terms and reminscing about how he enjoyed his trip there when he was … Continue reading