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Monday 2nd August 2004

Jackson Lake from the road to Yellowstone Colter Bay National Park Campground to Grant Village Campground, Yellowstone National Park. Got breakfast at the campground store and headed out onto the road by 11am. Still not getting out early! We cycled past Jackson Lake, with a heap of mountains on the far side - the photo shows the view along the lake. Lots of roadworks on the road to Yellowstone - got briefly put in the back of a pickup due to the fact that the road was a heap of stones and rocks for a short while! Into Yellowstone National Park. Wonderful forests some of the time - but some of the forests were a bit scorched due to a fire in 1988. Wouldn't think many self respecting bears would want that bit of forest. Met Brad from Boston heading to Buffalo to meet his son. We were looking out for the wildlife, but didn't see anything notable. The park official said, when we entered the park, that he advised against cycling the next stretch - heavy traffic, narrow shoulder to the road, soft verges, uphill, etc, etc. A touch absurd, presumably he was joking. Headed to the Grant Village Campground, early on because we had heard that the campsites in Yellowstone get very full. Arduth was camping there too. He'd saved up three months of holiday from his job in Holland and was heading for Oregon too. He said he liked Kansas because it was like the sea - all green waving grass for miles. Drank some nice beer called 'Moose Drool' and went to the very scenic pizza place right on Lake Yellowstone. Slept extremely well.

There's also a short mpeg video clip (288Kb so suitable for 56K modems - ogg format available for those wise enough to use linux and open source) of Guy amidst a spectacular landscape on the road along Lake Jackson. Note that this works with either RealPlayer or Quicktime - but Quicktime tends to default to an audio level that is too low and makes the sound narrative (read very wittily by Guy) jerky. Turn up the volume!


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