Firstly a few facts about Yellowstone. It was America's and the worlds first national park officially set side in 1872. A large portion of the park is with in the caldera of an active 'super volcano. The earth's crust in the area is extremely thin which results in a lot of sisemic activity (2500 earthquakes per year) as its located on the boarders of two tectonic plates and also its famous geysers. Basically if it erupted it would wipe out mo...

Yesterday was a l-o-n-g day of driving. We only got to the Crater's of the Moon NP at 8:30 in the evening (addmittedly we lost and hour changing from WDT to Mountain time. The stars last night were magic and I managed to convince a few others to sleep out with me, the shooting stars we saw was well worth it. For the last two night's I've slept under the stars as its bloody hot, I couldn't be bothered setting up a tent as I don't have a partner to ...

Yesterday afternoon I had another first, my first Dairy Queen. We all went in and had 'Blizzards' which which is basically thick ice cream with appropriate flavoring served in a cup. As a gimmick the cashiers turn them upside down too show how thick they are, we all tried it a few times but it still felt weird holding a cup up by a spoon and no top. As usual in America the smallest one was a bit too big for me to eat it all, hell there advertising a 64oz soda o...

Spent the last two nights at Yosemite National Park and I was veryimpressed. The first night we drove through and umed and arred at the beauty of valley and the contrast between the dark green of sequoia (giant trees) and the pines against the grey granite of exposed rock faces, its not surprise that Yosemite is world heritage listed! The second day when we went hiking that was most impressive. A group of four of us decided to do a steep 9-mile (return) trail up...