Although we had originally hoped to visit another national park, we were due in Fort Worth, Texas by Friday afternoon, and that was a two day trip ahead of us. So we headed east and then south back through Denver and stopping for the night in Raton, New Mexico . Nothing special about that town except that it was virtually exactly halfway to our ( Read more... )

We headed east back into Wyoming - our destination: the Grand Teton National Park. Although if we had spent the night in Yellowstone and would have gotten to the Tetons much earlier, we did get to see some interesting scenery coming in from the west instead. Despite trying to take a road that was little more than a very narrow gravel track, we did ( Read more... )

We headed west to Yellowstone National Park - beautiful scenery with the occasional scar of burnt sections of forest that have been slowly regenerating. Our first stop was to take pictures of bison from the roadside. Our second stop was *caused* by bison repeatedly crossing the road and blocking traffic for about half an hour! Yellowstone is an ( Read more... )

We indulged in a bit of sleep-in because the next leg of our journey was a lot shorter. We headed north and east through Wyoming to Nebraska and the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument. The campground just beyond was our chosen viewing site for the solar eclipse due the next day. Quite a few other people had decided to go there also, but it was ( Read more... )