Yellowstone

 Yellowstone is amazing. We were there for 3 nights and it was just beautiful. We had some starting problems when the car rental company ace couldn’t provide us with a insurance, so we had to get a different car. On top of that, ace apparently doesn’t refund so we basically had to pay for two cars. 

 

We stayed at Madison campground in Yellowstone, right next to a river where in the evening we could see elk and bisons\buffalo (even the locals there don’t know the difference…). While we were there, we drove by a few  bisons that were just standing next to the street. In Yellowstone you can see immediately when there is an animal by the cars parking at the side of the road and lots of people with way too big cameras. We even drove by a bear once. Sadly we didn’t see any of the wolfs.
Since it was the end of October, it rained a lot, but thanks to the car and the tent we stayed fairly dry. We could even take a shower at one of the hotels in old faithful for four dollars one time. Best shower ever. 

The hiking trips in Yellowstone are kind of short and a lot of people drive around there in their RVs, just stopping when there is an attraction right next to the road. We went up Mt. Washburn (10000 something feet), to the Fairy Falls and up the Elephants back where we had a view of Yellowstone lake. On the way we saw of course lots of chipmunks, squirrels and geysers. I think you can’t go anywhere in Yellowstone without the slight smell of rotten eggs, we even smelled it on Mt. Washburn. On the second day there we picked up a hitchhiker who told us to go to the Yellowstone Canyon and picking him up was a very good decision since we would have missed a colorful view of the pink, yellow, red and orange Canyon.

On two of the evenings we had a campfire at the campsite, unfortunately without marshmallows. But on the way back from Yellowstone to Bozeman and the next Greyhound we stopped at McD and had a real American meal. When refilling the car we bought the cheapest fuel ever, 50 liters for 30 dollars. It appears fuel is the only thing in America that is cheap. 
Max forgot his sunglasses in the car ( a crystler by the way ) and we noticed that at every station until now he has forgotten something. In Toronto his earphones, in Vermont his washing cloth and now his sunglasses. Let’s see what we will lose in the grand canyon.