Campfire Review at the Eagle's Landing Motel

If you've ever been to Yellowstone I'm sure that you have experienced the strange sensation that is being out in the wilderness with beautiful landscapes and wild animals while simultaneously feeling as if you are at an amusement park. It's like being at Jurassic Park but on top of a gigantic underground volcano that upon eruption would destroy the world as we know it. So, it was no surprise to me that there were tons of Japanese tourists.

Even with our neighbors from the far side of the ring of fire present and plenty, it don't get much more American than Yellowstone. Tons of nuclear families in rented RV's making the homage to grizzly bear country. Last night we camped next to a Dad who was preaching about how he couldn't believe the rangers asked him to get into his car while the bears safely wandered back out into the woods.
"I couldn't believe she told me to sit my butt in that car, that's what we're here for, the bears!"
I'll admit, I'm a little disappointed that we didn't see a bear. But, there was plenty of threatening wildlife around and close!

Andrew and I have settled well into our roles of the road. We're not as bad as the Griswolds but, I bet we're pretty entertaining. He is overly confident and am wary of EVERYTHING. One of us always turns out to be right. I'm hoping its usually going to be him. If not we would have already been eaten by bears, mauled by bison, robbed, run out of gas, and the Yellowstone caldera would have exploded about 10 hours ago.
I love Andrew in the wild. He get's so manly. He knows just what wood to gather, the best way to build the fire, he can take down camp in less than fifteen minutes!

Four states in two days. Right now we're held up at the Eagle's Landing in Beaver, UT. Can't say that I'm in love with Utah thus far. It stinks here, literally. And I'm from the land of the Tacoma Aroma. There have been some pretty epic billboards and some really terrible driving. Speaking of, I safely drove my first leg of our journey. I'm a little slower than Andrew but, we got here just fine. 

Tomorrow, we've got an early start, 5am or so. We've got about 100 miles until we get to Zion. Cross you fingers for us that we get a campsite. Against my better judgment Andrew assured me that we won't be needing one. I'm sure it'll be fine. 

Here's our last couple days in photos: