Feels good to be back on the bikes. With Sturgis now gone and the odometer just ticking over 1600 miles we are well into the trip.
The last two days we have ridden from Sturgis, South Dakota across to Cody, Wyoming for the night and from there onto Grant Village in Yellowstone National Park where I am writing this now.
On our way to Cody we passed through Bighorn National Park where within an hour the scenery changed from green rolling hills to dry grass lands surrounded by rocky outcrops. To traverse these two different lands we had to pass through a massive canyon. Was a great ride where we didn't stop as much as we should have. It looked like rain was coming and we weren't interested in getting wet! I'm having some technical difficulties with the pictures for that day so they will come later.
Cody itself is pretty nice, lots of Buffalo Bill memorabilia and a live show in the street which was average but still interesting. We had a beer at the bar he named after his daughter but by then rain set in and it was getting cold, home for bed!
This morning we left for Yellowstone and it's been the first day we have needed jackets and gloves (we were riding only in t-shirts a few days ago!). Probably something to do with the fact that we have gone up too 7,500 feet and even peaked at almost 11,000 when we road up the Beartooth pass highway (a very short visit to Montana). Still a bit of ice on the peaks only a stones throw away.
The park is amazing. We've been stopped by Bison standing on the road, spooked by deer jumping nearby and amazed by the Sulphur vents everywhere. We smelt them way before we saw them and initially couldn't figure it out, were we on to the scent of a giant grizzly? Perhaps a bison herd had camped beside the road last night? Nope, just a whole lot of sulphur acid boiling up from the earth in what is apparently the world's largest active volcano (55 x 72 km).
That'll do it for now, off to check out some famous geysers tomorrow.
Bill
The last two days we have ridden from Sturgis, South Dakota across to Cody, Wyoming for the night and from there onto Grant Village in Yellowstone National Park where I am writing this now.
On our way to Cody we passed through Bighorn National Park where within an hour the scenery changed from green rolling hills to dry grass lands surrounded by rocky outcrops. To traverse these two different lands we had to pass through a massive canyon. Was a great ride where we didn't stop as much as we should have. It looked like rain was coming and we weren't interested in getting wet! I'm having some technical difficulties with the pictures for that day so they will come later.
Cody itself is pretty nice, lots of Buffalo Bill memorabilia and a live show in the street which was average but still interesting. We had a beer at the bar he named after his daughter but by then rain set in and it was getting cold, home for bed!
This morning we left for Yellowstone and it's been the first day we have needed jackets and gloves (we were riding only in t-shirts a few days ago!). Probably something to do with the fact that we have gone up too 7,500 feet and even peaked at almost 11,000 when we road up the Beartooth pass highway (a very short visit to Montana). Still a bit of ice on the peaks only a stones throw away.
The park is amazing. We've been stopped by Bison standing on the road, spooked by deer jumping nearby and amazed by the Sulphur vents everywhere. We smelt them way before we saw them and initially couldn't figure it out, were we on to the scent of a giant grizzly? Perhaps a bison herd had camped beside the road last night? Nope, just a whole lot of sulphur acid boiling up from the earth in what is apparently the world's largest active volcano (55 x 72 km).
That'll do it for now, off to check out some famous geysers tomorrow.
Bill
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