Yellowstone Road Trip Day 3: The Lake and more springs

By Day 3, we were all worn out and eager to get back… Nevertheless, we did drive out to Yellowstone Lake, stopping in between at the Grand Prismatic Spring area where we saw more springs and pools…

The multicoloured Prismatic Spring

   

The Opal and Sapphire pools:

   

The lake itself had [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 2: The other Grand Canyon, wacky weather and more animals

Wow – I’ve soo not been able to write up the rest of trip given how busy I’ve been after getting back. But here’s the quick run down:

   

We went to the Grand Canyon at Yellowstone in the midst of some totally wacky weather… it was bright and sunny one moment and snowing 5 minutes [...]

A flower in the spring

 My favorite photo from the Yellowstone trip – a flower lying in the spring water, above Yellow sulfurous [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 1: Getting to Yellowstone and Ol’ Faithful

Dated: Saturday, May 27, 2006

   

Given how dead tired we all were after our 500 mile overnight drive, we woke up later than we should have and ended up leaving Missoula only at 11:30 or so. The drive through Montana was absolutely beautiful through green meadows, silken mountains and a long straight stretch along I-90. [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 0: On to Missoula

Dated: Friday, May 26, 2006

   

Ambi, Nanda, Anusha, Deepti & I headed out today to spend our long weekend in Yellowstone National Park. Given that it’s a 770 mile trip, we tried to get a head start by leaving on Friday evening with the intention of getting to Missoula, Montana by around midnight and resuming [...]