Yellowstone Weekend: Part II - The Faithful Soldier Tour

Arriving in the afternoon, with half the car passed out or what not, we reach our RV site, which was snowing... Mountain weather is pretty weird. One moment it's sunny, one moment it's snowing.

Anyway, so we then proceeded to anchor the RV and set it up. There were a bunch of steps to do, including setting up the sewage, and water pipes. For some reason, kept finding it funny that we pull out some tubes from the RV, and just connect it with a hole in the ground. The 'purging' of the RV was pretty fun too... the whooosh sound was pretty cool.

After finishing up lunch and setting up of the RV, we then drove to our first point of interest - Old Faithful. On the way, we saw a car in a ditch, with 2 babies on board. Pretty scary stuff. Luckily there were a bunch of people, and there was reception (not everywhere has reception) where the accident happened - so help was there and more help was on the way.

Arriving at Old Faithful, turns out we were there at a good time as it was about to erupt within an hour. So walking around a bit, we find a decent spot and wait for the eruption. Expecting something huge... I was disappointed... The eruption was really small. Apparently I find out later that Old Faithful means that they can predict when it erupts, not that it reliably erupts nicely.

Afterwards, we walked around the site, walking for hours to see a bunch of other geysers and what not. There were some bacteria pools that were pretty colorful. This one was the morning glory pool - which though pretty, when you factor in that we walked 1.5 mile to get here, and saw a bunch of similar ones along the way... then it's really not all that pretty.

Being ridicously tired, on the drive back to the RV, passed out and just slept. We return to a RV with a leaking ceiling... and can't use oven :( not enough electricity. So we ended up being creative and found ways to cook with just the gas stove.

With 4 hours of sleep yesterday, the soldier trip continues...