Yellowstone/shoshone

Saturday July 24th night-Monday July 26th evening

Saturday night when we arrived back at the campground we were greeted my Milf Mcporkable. She was awfully easy on the eyes for a 40 some year old woman. The rest of the night was spent doing nothing but drinking beverages and being manly. We woke up in the morning feeling phresh as usual and proceeded to the daily activities. We hit up hayden valley for our first stop which is basically a giant grazing ground for every animal in Yellowstone. It is the wolves rendezvous point and where they raise their cubs. We did not see any wolves however. What we did see was some bison, a bear, bison, elk, bison, a bald eagle, pelicans and bison. There was a herd of about 500 bison.

After hayden valley, we headed down towards Lake Yellowstone, which is the biggest high elevation lake in North America. Swimming is discouraged though, because the water struggles to get to 60 degrees even at the warmest times of the year. We checked out the lake a little bit, then went further south to West Thumb Geyser Basin. This had some of the coolest geysers in the park and also presented us with the chance to talk to a pretty lil thing who was totally diggin on us. We had to part ways after walking the trail however, and will most likely never see her again :(

After seeing this we had hit all the stops on our Yellowstone trip so we decided to leave the park. We left Yellowstone and headed for the national forest to find a place to camp. We decided to check in on one of the actual campgrounds that are in the forest. It was empty and self-registering. So we drove in and set up the tent. We figured no one would come to collect money or even come into the campground at all. A few people drove up to use the bathroom and one car actually came in to camp. We went down to talk to the people who much like us were college aged kids on a long road trip. We decided not to hang out with them and go back to our site to bro out more. We spent the night throwing entire trees onto the fire and laughing as the flames went over 6 feet high. Then we went to bed. A good evening for sure.
We woke up bright and early and pack up our things and left within 15 minutes. We drove out to twin falls, Idaho and saw Shoshone park. The falls are really neat to see. We free climbed up a sheer face to get a better view of the falls. Okay fine it wasn’t a sheer face, but the climb was steep enough to slide down at 40 mph. Okay fine it wasn’t 40 mph, but it was fast.

Next we left the falls and started driving to Seattle. This is still what were doing now. Its an awfully long drive. We saw an attractive girl driving her car as we passed by so we slowed down to hold up a sign that says “phone #?” After laughing, she promptly showed us her ring finger, which had a ring on it. Crash and burn. But it was still the highlight of the drive so far.

The only other thing worthy of a mention is how much of a barbarian I feel like. It has been 7 days since I last showered. We pooped in the woods, made fire, ate food cooked over a fire and food cooked in an engine. We’ve climbed several dirt covered mountains, played in muddy streams, fixed our bikes covering ourselves in bike grease, camped in forests, carried ash covered wood and just generally have gotten very dirty. We regularly do things that would be considered unacceptable in normal society (i.e. scratching ourselves blatantly, picking nose, pooping pants regularly, burping whole sentences, etc.) Hopefully soon we will be back in a city and return to being normal respectable humans. Hopefully.