Cody, WY

Another two reasons for massive traffic jams at Yellowstone this morning. Owen could have reached out and touched the bison, it was that close to the truck.

View from the road. Quite beautiful in a very different way from Montana and Yellowstone.

Late night posting so it will be short. Travelled to Cody today over some amazingly scenic roads. It is listed as a scenic byway (thanks Sara). We are staying at the Absaroka Bay RV Park. It is "senior friendly" which is why we chose it ;-) A few random thoughts on Yellowstone, not my favorite place, very beautiful but the tourists are crazy. They stop right in the middle of the road to take pictures or read a map even if there are 20 cars behind them. Picture a horror movie, the monster is coming into town and the people are fleeing, in Yellowstone it is just like that but the people are running toward a lone bison or elk. It is just crazy. We also found it more commercialized than most national parks. Again very beautiful but most of the wild comes from the visitors, most of which do not speak English as there first language. We drove through the park to get here. It took us over an hour to get passed the eagle management area where the signs read no stopping standing walking for the next 1/4 mile because the people would stop in the middle of the road and snap umpteen pictures of the eagles nest. Glad we were there and happy to be out.