Chapter Forty
Visit From a Monster
May 28, 2009—Yellowstone Day 2: Here's what we woke up to on our second day in Yellowstone (this is a still from a video you can see at DriveRideRepeat.blogspot.com):
This guy was really big—bigger than he looks here, because the camera always subtracts 400 pounds. He was a few feet from our tent, and Lena did not like it. She just wanted him to leave. Bison are the most unpredictable and dangerous animals in Yellowstone (apart from the nuts that hold the steering wheels).
After that excitement, we had breakfast, and Lena found that with some Benadryl she could keep her sneezing to a minimum. Things were looking much brighter, so we stopped thinking about getting home, and went back to enjoying the trip.
First we went on an 18-mile bike ride then spent the day sightseeing. We had hit a kind of scenic saturation on this trip, having seen so many incredible landscapes, but we could still enjoy the views here. After a lot of overlooks and short trails, paint pots, and geysers, we finally retired back to the campsite.
Good luck and bad luck tomorrow. Stay tuned, but first, a flashback to a real bicycle tour.