Yellowstone, Summer, and Life Whizzing By

After the spring transatlantic cruise with stops in the Azores, Liverpool, and Ireland and before the 65^th birthday, we traveled to Yellowstone. I do love Yellowstone National Park, America’s 2.2 million acre gem and first national park.  Given Oregon’s relative closeness to Yellowstone, we made this a road trip, that most American, pseudo-delicious way of traveling with its fantasy of open roads and freedom and reality of long, boring drives and fatigue.

We traveled to the park in late May, before season and with the hope of seeing lots of baby animals.  Did we over do on wildlife viewing this year given the first six months had been packed with wildlife sightings? 

Perhaps. Humpbacks, grays, dolphins, elephant seals, sea turtles, sharks, and more birds than I can name filled our trips.  That’s ok because nature is soothing, a balm for the chaotic, scorching political climate of current American life.

So to Yellowstone we traveled by car and we were rewarded with big horn sheep, baby bison, black bears, shedding, big-headed adult bison, and others. Wonderful trip. Yellowstone, with a little prep is also a place a celiac can eat.