To Yellowstone Park (Day 2)

Selena and I left our campsite in eastern Montana and made our way southwest and then south to Yellowstone Park. We decided to venture south into Wyoming to visit the park and see Old Faithful before going on towards our final destination: Vancouver, WA. One of the rest stops along the way was in the "Crazy Mountains" of Montana in Custer County.
The approach to a mountain range is always impressive and promises the feelings of awe and wonder. The mountains seem to rise out of nowhere. Here we were approaching the mountains of western and southern Montana. Driving in mountains always makes me a bit nervous and I DO suffer from some fear of heights.

Even though I'm a bit nervous I try to enjoy the feelings of awe and expectations of nature.

Photos fail to capture the beautiful sights. We had a GREAT time making our way down to see Old Faithful. Selena read out loud the most common myths about the Geyser. One myth is that it spews water at the same time everyday (actually, it averages a burst every 90 minutes).
We walked around the hot springs area and saw many mini-geysers.
These are incredible mineral deposits brought up from below the surface through the hot springs.
Of the wildlife we saw, here is an elk.
The buffalo had many calves. I don't have many good photos but the calves here were very curious about us whereas the adults were accustomed to human presence. The calves watched us and made little grunting noises as if asking their parents about us.
Like other babies, these calves ran around kicking their hooves in the air.
Not a good photo, but this buffalo was right next to our car on the passenger side, which made Selena a little nervous.
Finally we arrived at Old Faithful right before it spewed! There were hundreds of people waiting around for the event. It was REALLY awesome and a sight worth seeing. (See the webcam at: http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/OldFaithfulcam.htm
If you had been watching this website on Tuesday around 6 p.m. you would have seen us online!
What a spectacle! Afterward we took a hike around the area until it started to rain. At that point we decided to return to our campsite that we had set up in Yellowstone Park. Tomorrow we have a long day ahead of us through Montana, through Idaho and as far into Washington as we can get.