Yellowstone: Serenity On A Bus

Above, an eruption of Old Faithful Geyser. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

With more people visiting Yellowstone National Park than ever, this presents visitors with a problem, namely, traffic. 

With so many people and their vehicles visiting the park, it makes it more difficult to see the sights and even park. This is especially a problem of one is driving a big Class A or Class C motorhome. It is near impossible to find parking for RVs.

The logical choice, which is what we did two years ago, is to leave the RV at camp and take a tour bus (the tour company we went with picked us up at the KOA we stayed at in West Yellowstone, Montana) through the park.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette posted a travelogue article on a couple's recent trip to Yellowstone with a tour bus company.

It begins with:

Old Faithful isn't as faithful as it is supposed to be, at least according to an impatient gentleman standing right behind me at Yellowstone National Park. The posted prediction time for its eruption on that sunny yet cool summer afternoon is 2:25, but the geyser seems in no hurry except for a few preliminary wisps of steam. 

The beloved geyser, the rock star of Yellowstone, is running late, an eruption disruption, if you will, with O Impatient One clicking off the minutes like a drill sergeant. It's 2:26, he says to anyone who would listen. Now 2:27. Erggh, he huffs at 2:28.

But then fickle and mischievous Mother Nature, who isn't one to be hurried in the first place, rises to the challenge, and iconic Old Faithful, summoned by fires smoldering and sighing beneath Earth's crust, forces thousands of gallons of silvery, scalding water and steam a couple of hundred feet skyward.

Above, the main lobby of the Lake Yellowstone Hotel. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

For information on the tour bus company they used:

Accommodations for Tauck’s “Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks” include Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Tetons National Park; Old Faithful Inn and Lake Yellowstone Hotel in Yellowstone National Park; Holiday Inn Cody in Cody, Wyo.; the Ranch at Ucross in Clearmont, Wyo.; and the Rushmore Hotel in Rapid City, S.D. 

For more information on this tour and other national parks tours, visit Tauck.com or call (800) 788-7885.

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