It was a long drive from my hotel in West Yellowstone to Glacier National Park. It's the entire height of the state and about 400 miles. I made good time and got to my starting point of Kalispell, Montana. That is a town a short way from the western edge of the park. My plan was to stay overnight then drive through the park west to east on one day, stopping as I wanted, and then stay on the eastern side of the park, hopefully in one of the hostels. The reason fo...

My time in Yellowstone is a tale of two days. The first was 28th July, when I drove from my previous night's stopover in Billings, Montana to the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The park itself is huge, so I decided to split it into two days' worth of exploration. On the first day, once I'd got to it, I would go down the east side of the figure-eight loop road. And, since I was staying outside the west entrance of the park, on my second day I would ...

I have to quickly blog, even though there's nothing much to say about where I am. I just got the bus from Denver, Colorado to Billings, Montana... and I've never had such a good coach in my life! It's sort of a Greyhound service, but it's provided by a separate company. We had an almost-brand new Mercedes-Benz coach with Blaupunkt DVD system, and we watched movies for the whole 13 hour journey. It included, appropriately, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I sa...