Forestboy
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Hi All
We're now in Cheyenne Wyoming slowly heading S/E back towards Florida where we'll meet some friends and have a birthday bash for Jan.
We made it as far North as San Francisco which we really enjoyed except for the campsite fees. $60 a night for a concrete carpark just because it's California and near the Pacific so we've started using state parks in between campsites they're fantastic always the best locations and $15 to $20 a night. Before leaving California we spent 3 days camped on the beach & 3 days at Yosetime with perfect timing as the snow had just melted so the rivers were white and fast and waterfalls were spectacular. Then we headed east across the mountains through the ski resorts at 7000/8000ft through Nevada Utah and Idaho into Wyoming to Yellowstone. On the way we stopped at Lake Tahoe in the mountains and on the edge of the Great Salt Flats near Bonneville, what a barren place,before heading up into Salt Lake City and on to Wyoming. The journey took 3 days of hard driving especially crossing the mountains and we saw the huge land train trucks which run through that route artics with 2&3 trailers behind.
Jan had been looking forward to Yellowstone so much I was dreading it being an anti climax especially as it had snowed heavily 3 days before we arrived. We did a lot of research on the best time to visit and mid May seemed to be the best for animal activity, as spring is here and the animals are hungry and very active but the weather can be very bad 6ft to 8ft of snow on the roadside when we arrived. Well we weren't dissapointed we saw 3 grizzly bear, 1 black bear, moose, elk, wolves, buffalo, deer, white pelican, coyote a bald eagle and loads of small critters we could'nt identify. One grizzly ran past us chasing elk I could'nt believe a bear could move so fast. A warden told us a grizzly can run up to 35mph and can catch elk and we actually saw a video of a grizzly doing it in the Natural History Museum in Cody. We left Yellowstone exhausted, because you have to spend a lot of time outdoors if you want to see the wildlife, and headed down to Cody where we camped by the side of a lake for 3 days. Cody is the hometown of Buffalo Bill and has one of the best museums I've ever visited in fact its 5 museums in 1 well worth a visit.
Well thats all for now trying to attach some pics but internet is pretty poor out west so pot luck.
:thumb::thumb:Rory & Jan
Pic 1 Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
Pic 2 Pacific beach home for 3 days
Pic 3 Lake in Yellowstone
Pic 4 Buffalo Yellowstone
Pic 5 Bear Yellowstone
P.S. Fed up & having a beer Jans just been shopping, new cowboy boots and hat ready for Americana bloody birthday has cost me a fortune.
We're now in Cheyenne Wyoming slowly heading S/E back towards Florida where we'll meet some friends and have a birthday bash for Jan.
We made it as far North as San Francisco which we really enjoyed except for the campsite fees. $60 a night for a concrete carpark just because it's California and near the Pacific so we've started using state parks in between campsites they're fantastic always the best locations and $15 to $20 a night. Before leaving California we spent 3 days camped on the beach & 3 days at Yosetime with perfect timing as the snow had just melted so the rivers were white and fast and waterfalls were spectacular. Then we headed east across the mountains through the ski resorts at 7000/8000ft through Nevada Utah and Idaho into Wyoming to Yellowstone. On the way we stopped at Lake Tahoe in the mountains and on the edge of the Great Salt Flats near Bonneville, what a barren place,before heading up into Salt Lake City and on to Wyoming. The journey took 3 days of hard driving especially crossing the mountains and we saw the huge land train trucks which run through that route artics with 2&3 trailers behind.
Jan had been looking forward to Yellowstone so much I was dreading it being an anti climax especially as it had snowed heavily 3 days before we arrived. We did a lot of research on the best time to visit and mid May seemed to be the best for animal activity, as spring is here and the animals are hungry and very active but the weather can be very bad 6ft to 8ft of snow on the roadside when we arrived. Well we weren't dissapointed we saw 3 grizzly bear, 1 black bear, moose, elk, wolves, buffalo, deer, white pelican, coyote a bald eagle and loads of small critters we could'nt identify. One grizzly ran past us chasing elk I could'nt believe a bear could move so fast. A warden told us a grizzly can run up to 35mph and can catch elk and we actually saw a video of a grizzly doing it in the Natural History Museum in Cody. We left Yellowstone exhausted, because you have to spend a lot of time outdoors if you want to see the wildlife, and headed down to Cody where we camped by the side of a lake for 3 days. Cody is the hometown of Buffalo Bill and has one of the best museums I've ever visited in fact its 5 museums in 1 well worth a visit.
Well thats all for now trying to attach some pics but internet is pretty poor out west so pot luck.
:thumb::thumb:Rory & Jan
Pic 1 Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
Pic 2 Pacific beach home for 3 days
Pic 3 Lake in Yellowstone
Pic 4 Buffalo Yellowstone
Pic 5 Bear Yellowstone
P.S. Fed up & having a beer Jans just been shopping, new cowboy boots and hat ready for Americana bloody birthday has cost me a fortune.
Look forward to catching up at Americana. 
