I know it doesn't quite make up for all the months I didn't update, though ( Read more... )

It's really nice when airports have wifi -- MSP does, and so does Washington Dulles, although it's a lot less reliable and took me a while to connect. I was able to locate an ATM, look up when the plane would arrive, and all sorts of things ( Read more... )

After a couple nice days at home (got to see my cat, got to take my grandma to lunch, got to have pizza with the siblings), now I'm off to Madrid ( Read more... )

It was rainy and cold and we got a bit of a late start. We had hoped to take the Beartooth Pass, but it was closed for snow, so instead we took the Chief Joseph Highway ( Read more... )

We went to Yellowstone Lake today. We spent the most time at the West Thumb, which is still active under the water and which is actually a smaller caldera inside of the main caldera ( Read more... )

Today we went to the main geyser basin with Old Faithful and the other famous geysers. On our way there, we stopped at some of the other geysers that were a little farther away, although we didn't see any of them erupt ( Read more... )

The park started to get slightly more crowded since it's Labor Day weekend. Also, it was slightly colder, but still pretty nice ( Read more... )

We started out with seeing the Yellowstone River. We hiked to Clear Lake and then along the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Canyon is white streaked with yellow and red ( Read more... )

Long and boring day without much walking -- just driving to Yellowstone, mostly. There was a lot of haze from fires and the humidity. We set up camp in Norris Campground, and went to the ranger program, which was on survival stories. The ranger was clearly a writer first, and he performed the talk like an actor -- which was actually kind of cool ( Read more... )

My dad and I finally got to do our hike from Logan Pass along the Highline Trail to Granite Park Chalet to Swiftcurrent Pass (my uncles had done it before we arrived, and didn't want to do it again, so they went off to do their own thing ( Read more... )