An Adventure Among Family

Day 14: We found a wonderful campsite near a river (for free - national forest). We kept our tent set up at this spot for the duration of our stay in Yellowstone. It took hours to get through Yellowstone: people like to stop in the middle of the road to see wildlife. We also did laundry and took showers. Showers were $4.51, the most we have paid this trip. I have seen showers as high as $10 though and read online they are even more expensive at trucker gas stations. Day 15: We saw Old Faithful from a bench a little ways from the geyser. It was a perfect view and nearly no people compared to actually being around Old Faithful. In between seeing Old Faithful and Grand Geyser we got ice-cream and saw Grand Prismatic Spring from he boardwalk. It was fairly cold that day so when we walked around the spring, the heat and steam from the spring hit us and made us a little damp. The colors in the spring stood out even more when wearing polarized glasses. I talked to a couple next to...

Day twelve and thirteen were a bit uneventful. We drove through City of Rocks, which is a rock climber's paradise (unfortunately for us, none of us rock climb). We continued on to Craters of the moon, but decided to camp outside Pocatello, so that we could enjoy the glorious restaurant, ButterBurr's, the following morning. We woke up, ate the most amazing idahoan breakfast (full of the carbs and sugar typical of the American diet). Once finished, we drove an excessively long distance on unimproved roads in order to make it to Bear Trap cave and another nearby cave (unnamed as far as we can tell), all inside Craters of the moon. Arden did not care to join Sawney and I inside the smaller cave, but there were three rooms that were all quite large. We left craters of the moon, and went to Mesa Falls. We took some pictures there, and camped at a horrifically mosquito infested campsite (which was otherwise beautiful). ...