Full Spectrum Road Trip

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Yellowstone

I am standing in front of Mammoth Hot Springs. They are a hot springs so full of minerals that they form these cool terraced shapes down the hill. The hot water falls down from pool to pool.

Sky Drama

Montana is big sky country. The rain was so cool from a distance.

On our drive through the Cascade Mountains in Washington on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, we met Raul at a lookout point and struck up a conversation. We had been following him on his motorcycle and kept passing each other.

Raul is two weeks from being discharged from the military. He has done four tours overseas -- 3 in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan -- in the Special Forces. He told us that he is going to go to college for a degree in computer science now that he is done with his duty.

Raul couldn't have been a nicer person. He's one of the people I'll remember most from our journey. Welcome back home, Raul! Best of luck to you on your next set of adventures.

photos of photos

Yellowstone was so impressive. We only got through a quarter of what I had planned...Alan shot a lot of photos and unloading the cameras from the car takes lots of time (plus setting up a tripod...) and I really enjoyed watching him capture some great photos. I carry a little point and shoot while Alan takes the serious photos with his big cameras (you should see one of his lenses, it's really long). I help carry stuff to each lookout point. We had fun taking photos of other couples for them in front of waterfalls. There were a bunch of Japanese tourists...people from all over the world really.

Anyways, this is my series of the day. Photos of photos: Alan taking in beautiful Yellowstone. He has taken some incredible photos on this trip. It will be great to see the collection.