July 7th: Yellowstone to Livingston (Day 15)

We got an early start on this day – a REAL early start! For some reason our phones kept changing back and forth between time zones so when we set our alarm for what we thought was 6:30am, it actually turned out to be 5:30am. We broke camp and didn't realize the time until we tried to get breakfast and everyplace was still closed. The morning started out slow, but we finally got to see a buffalo – as it ran right by our car! We also saw more deer, some bears (from the car - with park rangers moving the traffic along), a jackrabbit, a grey wolf, an eagle and an elk. We saw one of the bears when we stopped to see the only known standing petrified tree. By the time that we arrived at Mammoth Springs we were exhausted – so we only managed to walk the lower section and drove up to the upper section. We were pretty happy to spend the two days at the park that we did, but we could have spent a week and still not seen all the incredible sites.

We left the park and drove to Livingston. Right outside of town we found a fantastic campground between two mountains on the Yellowstone River. It was just a small camping park with mostly RV sites and a few primitive tent sites. The couple that ran the place were nice and gave us a great deal. After getting camp set up and making a big taco salad, we walked to the little burger joint right beside the camp and each got 2 scoops of ice cream for only 3$! Even better, they had Wi-Fi so we could catch up on our email! After a good night's sleep we packed up camp and drove into Livingston to catch up on some laundry and to see the town.

Pictures for Day 15