Day 32...Yellow Stone..a break from Internet , TV and even news papers

I am back. Three days of total isolation , no TV , no Internet and no news paper ( ok, i confess, Black berry was still working some of the time) . I did not miss the TV or the news paper but I did moss Internet . I wrote the blogs but am posting them now. So ,today there will be four blogs coming.
We drove through lot of fresh snow and slick roads but made it Yellow Stone through East entrance. The road US14/US16 is supposed to be one of the most beautiful road in USA and it is very pretty when you can look and admire the beauty.
The town of Cody, looked very interesting also, I wish the weather was better and we could spend a day there. The town was founded by " Buffalo Bill" and has lot of old history about it.
The drive from Cody to Yellow Stone was beautiful.

First thing we encountered was the frozen Yellow Stone Lake and also found out the the road from East to Old faithful was closed and we will have to go through a longer route to get to the lodge we were staying at.
The weather was nice and we had plenty of time so we were not panicking. We took our time and saw all the Canyon land area things. There is the Yellow Stone river

Which made this canyon called the Grand Canyon of Yellow stone. It is very colorful as you can see
The river also made several waterfalls. Unfortunately, the trails were closed due to snow but we were able to get to the viewing areas.

Yellow Stone is huge , so it is divided into four different sections. the East part was Canyon area and it has the canyon , river ,lake and water falls but it also has the Geothermal features that makes Yellow Stone unique. We saw several , " boiling mud" areas. Almost everywhere you look, you see mud boiling or steam coming out or boiling hot water and of course the smell of Sulfur is everywhere.

We travelled south ,west to get to the lodge which was in Old Faithful area. A the security Bison checked us out carefully before we were allowed to get into that area:



We stayed at OF snow Lodge , it is nice but pricey. It is about the most comfortable option for this time of the year. Most of the campgrounds and lodges are not open yet. I was little disappointed but the OF area in that it is very built up and we saw more concrete than the trees in that part but remember YS is huge , so there is lots of good stuff here too.
More to come in tomorrow's blog. Good night