We began today with breakfast at Eggingtons, a highly-rated Casper breakfast diner. Deciding to forgo the Friendly Ghost museum, we got back on the road to Denver. The drive was particularly uneventful, just 5 hours of mainly straight flat highway.
Road Trip
Road Trip - Casper
The next set of blog posts are written about three months after the fact. We took lots of notes (and photos) on things that we did each day, but kind of fell off the wagon in regard to actually publishing
Road Trip - Yellowstone - Day 6
Firehole RiverWe started the day with a swim in the Firehole River. Totally unplanned - we discovered this popular spot after Sean randomly turned into a side road, just to see where it would go. The road followed the river
Road Trip - Yellowstone - Day 5
Norris Geyser Basin Norris' carpark is particularly notorious for being small and crowded with tourists. To avoid the mayhem, we walked from our campsite for about 30 minutes to the Norris Geyser Basin. The trail led us across a meadow,
Road Trip - Yellowstone - Day 4
Sheepeater Cliff We pulled off the main road to eat some sandwiches and found ourselves at Sheepeater Cliff! It is an exposed cliff face of columnar basalt, formed 500,000 years ago during a volcanic eruption, as basalt-rich lava flooded
Road Trip - Yellowstone - Day 3
Artist's Paintpots We impulsively pulled into the chaotic carpark at Artist's Paintpots. A boardwalk led us around a basin of pots, pools and streams; some muddy and others bright orange and blue. Hydrogen sulphide gas gives the mudpots their characteristic