Yellowstone - Day 16

After driving all night to get back through California, we slept in the whip in Northern Nevada, woke up and straight shotted out to Yellowstone. Even with that, we arrived really late, and the sun was setting already by the time we got to the park. Even worse, all the campgrounds were filled, meaning that we couldn’t stay anywhere in the park. So, we made the best of our time, seeing as much as could before it got too cold for us to chill. We saw the sulphur pits, the steaming geysers, the lakes, streams and valleys. It was really beautiful and overwhelming. There were buffalo all over, roaming and in road, and we saw some bears and deer. I know, nature for me is kind of a difficult thing to describe, it’s one of those things where it’s like “dood, you just had to be there” type of shit. We should have posted more pics, but we got too involved with the real cameras and forgot about the cell phone cams, they’ll be up in the larger gallery when we’re done

Craziest shit was when we almost ran over a pack of wild horses, as they were chilling right in the middle of the road. They were pretty unperturbed by us, kind of milled around for a second and then traveled off. Really amazing though, and it was nuts to be in like the straight wilderness like that. It got me thinking how nice it would be sometimes to live off the grid like that, living a simpler life closer to nature and the earth, and it also kind of made me sad that civilization has progressed in a way that has created such a distinct separation between man and nature.  The Native American culture indigenous to the region believed in ths balance of things, and that we were all connected as part of the Earth, a philosophy that people now are finally giving some weight to after the doomsday type of weather shit that’s been happening.  It’s going to be interesting to see how the next administration handles eco issues.  Coming out and being in the forrests and mountains really makes you aware of the environmental issues, because shit as marvelous as Yellowstone needs to be protected from capitistic interest.

Since our stay couldn’t be as magical as we had planned, we rolled out of the park and kept moving, on to Mount Rushmore, trying to stay on schedule for home.

-e