And let there be no doubt the road north to Yellowstone is the tourist trail. Overfilled hire cars with Japanese tourists jostled with furry faced, tattooed men in cut off t-shirts with over-wide V8 trucks & V8 guts.The former will stop with no notice to take shots of each other. The latter will drive extremely slowly & take hugely extravagant manoeuvres when turning left or right. All driving no faster than 45 mph.
Think Yellowstone, think geezers, think Old Faithful. The NP is scattered with hundreds of geysers & hot springs but the dependable one is OF. So, having followed the cavalcade of tourists to said geezer, I was much amused to find long lines of size 20 plus backsides sat on benches as far as the eye could see in front of OF's steaming hole. Very Monty Pythonesque I thought. I walked off to see the more camera shy geezers. Is it possible to use the words hot, sulphurous & colourful without resorting to fart humour ?
Still, give him his due, when OF did let rip, it was impressive.
Geezers and random tourists aside (of which I am part), Yellowstone is a beautiful place. You are always reminded that this is a volcanic place. It creates an unique environment - river fishing with steaming geezers in the background.
I travelled back via Yellowstone which is at 2400M and still largely frozen.
NB pet hate for the long term budget hotel man is American cars that still have alarms that beep when you lock or unlock them (technology from the 1990s I recall). So late on, people arrive back from their fast food troughs and beep to lock. Then beep to unlock/lock to get what they've forgot. Repeat. Repeat for 30 plus cars. I am moments away from opening door naked and shouting "we live in the XXin 21st century, why do you need a beep to tell you your cars locked. Do you need a beep to tell you to have a dump!...". Perhaps not.
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