The restaurant at Colter Bay does a breakfast buffet, and we’d obviously be remiss if we didn’t compare the one in our third National Park of the summer to the buffets in the previous two. Well, like the “normal” grocery store here, the restaurant is also surprisingly “normal”. Like, it could be a country-style family… Read more…

It’s time to leave Yellowstone, after “only” ten nights in the park (compared to our 24 nights in Glacier National Park). I’m sure that’s still far more time than the average visit to Yellowstone, and more than triples the amount of time I’d spent on my first two Yellowstone visits combined. The Yellowstone road network… Read more…

One of Rett’s main goals in the park was to see Old Faithful. I was all for that since I hadn’t seen it in my previous two visits either. The problem is that, despite being in the most-visited area of the park, it’s 20 miles away from the campgrounds on either end of it, and… Read more…

Day 3 Unexpected light rain in the middle of the night forced me into the least-fun task of climbing out of the tent in the dark drizzle to cover our bags and other sensitive parts of our bikes/campsite. It’s so un-fun that you think we would just prepare for the possibility every night before going… Read more…

Two nights in a Roosevelt cabin, three nights at Canyon Village campground, and now it’s time to move onto our third Yellowstone home. Of the ten campgrounds in Yellowstone that have hiker/biker sites, four of them are closed this season (Pebble Creek, Tower Fall, Mammoth, and Norris) due to continuing effects from last year’s flood,… Read more…

Day 3 Yesterday we explored the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, so today we’d do a more-extensive excursion around the South Rim. This time we took our (mostly-unloaded) bikes and rode them four miles to the parking lot at Artist Point. The viewpoints here all have uplifting aspirational names (Artist, Inspiration,… Read more…