I did not get to write this on the actual day 3, because we had to change places to stay. This place was a cabin belonging to the huge Lake Hotel. Not only did it not have internet connections, we didn”t have cell phone service. The next day, yesterday, we were traveling and I didn”t feel like doing the blob.

But anyway, on day 3, we got to look at the marvelous Yellowstone Falls and Canyon. The Canyon has the yellow-colored walls that I suppose gave the park its name.  We got to stand on the brink of the Upper Falls and gaze down into the river that catches all this water. The Yellowstone River flows out of the Yellowstone Lake, the largest mountain lake in North America, and flows north to the Missouri River in Montana. The Lower Falls is the tallest and is the one most often seen in pictures. As we drove through the park, we kept wondering about the first people to discover this place. I did read about a white man who was disbeliieved when he wrote about it. When we left the Canyon area, we drove through a very large thunderstorm. Fortunately it had stopped by the time we had to unload our bags into the cabin. We had to turn on the heater the next morning, but it was a beautiful day to finish our journey. We headed to the NE entrance (our cabin was more in the south) since we intended to drive toward Devil”s Tower in NE Wyoming. There were a few bison in the Hayden Valley, but we were early enough to not have a lot of cars stopped. However, we did have to stop for bison in the road. One thing we noticed about buffalo–a bull and cow will almost always be wandering around together. The male makes growls almost all the time. I took a video to record his growls. The signs say, don”t approach the bison, but people are gored every year from getting too close.

The journey to the NE entrance was scenic with some more bison in the Lamar Valley. We didn’t see any more elk and never saw a bear. There was one section called the Grizzly Area, but even with our binnoculars we didn’t see anything. They don’t let prople into this area. Right outside the entrance, was a quaint town called Silver Gate. Everything in the town was a log structure. It had a lot of hotels and outfitters for various things. However, we noticed that gas was $3,30 a gallon! That was higher than in Yellowstone. (captive audience)

On our way to our next stop, which was Buffalo, Wy, we went on another scenic road. There is such beauty in Wyoming (as well as some desolation here in various places, such as Sinclair, Wy).

Here is a picture of our little cabin: