Day 4 (6/22)

6/22

Despite the feels of progress, graybull is quite a drive to Yellowstone. Lots of desolate landscape in between the two. Stopped in Cody, wy to get coffee, we both got drip (regular) coffee and ended up with steamed milk on top of what was likely coffee. Not sure how they do things out in Cody, so we rolled with it, but it was curious at best. 

Upon entering Yellowstone, we got a rather intense welcome by coming within 4 feet of a Buffalo with our car. It turns out this isn’t an unusual occurrence, but cool none the less. Got our bearings after a few stumbles when trying to get a trails map/groceries and did a quick trail run along the Yellowstone river. It is flooded right now with all the rain they’ve been getting and it abruptly ended our trail run when we came upon a flooded creek. No matter as it’s down time for me anyway. We had intended to try to head up to the boiling river today, but came to realize the scale of the park we are dealing with. If you are staying on the south side, you don’t do things on the north side of the park. That’s for another trip. Made it was far as the upperfalls where we had lunch and headed for the south entrance.

Overall, not a great first day I. Yellowstone,  but happy to have made it. Lots,of people and lots of driving and it’s rained literally every day of the trip at some point during the day. With that said, we were fortunate to have chosen the camper cabin over camping and while it’s pricey for what you get, it sure is nice to have a roof over our heads and a stoop to cook on.