Day 5: Yellowsone - Cody, WY


Wednesday 9/6
We started the morning with a quick trip to Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon. It is really a grand canyon. It’s a bid hazy so that the photos won’t be really good – but we carry the pictures in our heart. From here we start the tour going north towards Mammoth and its terrace springs. The geysers make it like we are on another planet. It looks like ice, salt, copper and many other ingredients out of a chemical kitchen. Some of the many little ponds are dried out but it still looks very impressive. We continue towards Old Faithful, pass by many other geyser spots with incredible colors and end this day tour through Yellowstone at the West Thumb, the place we were too lazy to stop yesterday.


We liked those geysers most. They were very approachable, so clear and deep it was just amazing. Since we couldn’t stay another night in the park, we had to proceed – actually as planned – to Cody, the next town after the east entrance of the park. We called the Mayer’s Inn, that we will be late but will make it tonight. It’s the first day where we drive after sunset. After we left the Park, where we saw pretty much every wild life except bear we had to stop all of a sudden. 3 Cars with emergency flashlight on and people on the street. Oh no – not an accident at that time in the middle of nowhere. We slowed down and realized that people taking photographs, but not from crashed cars but something on the other side of the street. Wow – a very big Grizzly bear enjoying berries in the bush next to him. Unfortunately most of the photos I took didn’t work out but one.



He steered right at me. His huge head had 2 firey eyes looking right at me and reflected my flash light. “Be careful – this is a very big one” Hmm – I would be careful even if it is half the size. We could see his light, almost grey fur. He looked like he was an older guy. What a great way to leave the park. We went on through the mountains towards Cody and landed at the Mayers Inn, a very nice Bed & Breakfast. The Mayers Inn was the first Manson in Code built for the first Mayer in town. When we entered the town, we noticed a bright and well advertised saloon and decided to go back for a beer. This salon is still hot – but it was even hotter about 100 years ago – it was Cody’s “Cat House”.

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