GEYSER - YELLOW STONE

May 24, 2008 is third day in Yellow Stone.We have been enjoying nature a lot.Our plan for today was to visit geyser and hot spring. Yellow Stone is known for that. Apparently,it is number one in the world. There are many geyser and hot spring spouts to look at here. Since we couldn't cover all geyser locations so we decided to go a place called Old Faithful Geyser.

This place is 120 feet wide and water spouts erupts every 80-90 minutes. A paved walk way and benches surrounds the cone geyser, keeping visitors about 300 feet away from the massive spray.By the time we got there, many people were waiting to see the eruption. There were a little eruption when we got there but everyone have been waiting for the massive one.

We were actually lucky. It didn't take more than 15 minutes eruption to happen. I would assume the height of the geyser was 60 feet and lasts for approximately 4 minutes.

After eruption ended , visitors started walking back to their car to keep on visiting other locations, to visitor centers and some kept on looking at small geyser. It was spectacular.

There is another geyser spouts at Yellow Stone called Norris Geyser Basin. It is the world's tallest geyser, reaches height of 300-400 feet. The bad news is, often remains quite for months or years between eruptions. Only some geysers are predictable.So any one who was there during the eruption probably be the most lucky person on earth.

Then we started driving to the south entrance to leave Yellow Stone National Park and to enter to another National Park called Grand Tetons National Park located also in Wyoming.

When we drive there it was raining as well as snow falling.It was such a depressing weather. A more intense snow condition.We got hungry and we wanted to eat lunch. There was no place to eat lunch.It is a National Park.We had to get a place to fix Turkey sand witch.There was no any place better than our car. So we stopped by the Jackson Lake inside Grand Tetons National Park. It was totally covered with snow. Anyways we enjoyed our lunch inside a freaking cold weather condition.

Here is the most interesting part of today's trip. We had to camp to spend the night somewhere in this park. It was a snow ground but we used to it. We got a camping site called Signal Mountain. Andy and I fixed our tent. Avi started fixing dinner. It was soup. Avi named it Signal Mountain Soup. Avi gave me a mission to collect fire wood.Myself was a country boy as a kid,so I am good at it. It is called " Enchet Lekema" in Ethiopian language. Andy was going to light it up. And he did.

The camping site was almost full of people even with a snow ground. There were many people camping since it was a memorial day week end. With Andy's fire and Avi's soup the night was wonderful.

Hey guys more stories coming soon including about American small towns. As long as Avi fix dinner, Andy light up the fire and I ( Sisay ) collect the fire wood, We are going to keep on camping in any weather condition and enjoy our trip. . We loved it !!!