Apparently the Columbine fire as gotten dangerously close to the road that leads to the east entrance. As of tonight's news, this fire has burned 13,000 acres and isn't close to being contained. During our drive of activities today, we drove on the first part of that road (they have the road block set up at 8 miles in). I tried to take pics of the fire but the smoke and haze didn't make for a very clear picture so I copied this one from online.
This road leads past a stone beach on the shores of Lake Yellowstone and once again the kids had a great time skipping rocks. We spent some time there just decompressing and relaxing since there were so few people in this area.
On the way back we had fun stopping and watching the "buffys" again as it had been a few days since we had seen them. We were all looking at a herd off to the left when all of a sudden J slammed on the brakes... this big guy came off from the right and stepped into the path of our van!
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Not sure if you're still in Yellowstone, but I'm glad you're having such a good time in my fair state! In spite of the darn fires. :)
Waving at you from under that smoke to the Northwest!
Natalia from Suz' BB.
Natalia... I completely forgot that you were from this area... It is BEAUTIFUL!! I can't wait to come back!
Next time you should go up to Glacier National Park. Northwestern Montana, up by Canada. It's gorgeous up there too. And if you're lucky, you might even get to see a Grizzly Bear! :) Going to the Sun Road is supposed to be a FABULOUS drive. I've never been up there when it was open all the way through the park, though. The little I did get to drive was great.
DTF, you give the BESTEST sitreps...the pix are amazing!!! Hang on to all the deets 'cuz you've convinced me this is a trip I need to take my girls on!
So happy to hear you've been having a wonderful family vacay! LMAO @ the horseback riding...bet you were saying a few silent prayers of thanx to BodyRev, huh? YOU ROCK, G'FRIEND!!! : )
R&R... you will feel completely at home. We saw quite a few license plates from our neighbors to the north... British Columbia, and Alberta were most common but some Ontario and Quebec were spotted too. Plus, travellers from other countries rivaled the American population as well. We heard scandanavian, russian, hindi, chinese, japanese and quite a few more we couldn't place. We even had one family on one of our walks from the Chech Republic. Yellowstone was a huge melting pot of visitors.
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