Back In Town

Hey, everyone. If you're one of the six people who regularly read my blog, then you might be wondering why for the last few weeks, I've been pumping out post after post of books from my shelf. Why didn't I have anything new to say? Well, those were posts that I wrote way ahead of time to hit while I was out of town. I have a sickness in that I feel the need to post on the blog every day, even if I'm not around.

We just got back yesterday from a two week vacation to Yellowstone and Canada. We drove all the way up there, a grueling two day affair that required an 18-hour day to get from Houston to Denver as well as a shorter, but still lengthy, day to get from Denver to Yellowstone.

We had fun there, though. We saw a lot of things and did a ton. I took a bunch of pictures that I'll share with you too. First off, we went to the visitor center.

That's always a good idea, so that you know what the most interesting things to see are and how to find them. Yellowstone is really neat. I guess it's a supervolcano, so the whole friggin' place is on top of a giant caldera. That makes an awful lot of the place superheated, and water and steam comes bubbling and spurting up all over the place.

We went to several pools like this one.

They're not the kind of pools you want to go swimming in, though. Most of them are much hotter even than a jacuzzi. They're closer to a pot of boiling water. So, unless you want to look like stew meat, you gotta steer clear and stay on the walkway. Here's another one we saw.

Nice, huh?

Sometimes, the pools are big enough, they figure they can't just call them pools, so you get one like this:

Yikes. Don't get in the lake if it's steaming, folks. It's not worth it.

There are some other things that Yellowstone is known for. We saw the Fountain Paint Pots.

And at Mammoth Hot Springs, we saw a few things, like this:

We didn't only look at volcanic stuff. We even went hiking in some spots...the spots where the ground isn't superheated, anyway.

Of course, Yellowstone is most famous for geysers, and we saw a few of those.

Steady Geyser was neat. So was Clepsydra Geyser.

Or this one, which was really going!

Of course, we made sure to see the most famous one of all.

We were even there the day that Biscuit Basin exploded...we weren't actually on Biscuit Basin at the time, though, so I don't have any pictures to share with you of that. Hopefully, you enjoyed this pictorial review of my vacation. I hope the majesty of the landscape really entertained and awed you like it did me.