Personal Essays

YELLOWSTONE


We went to Yellowstone and yes it is a wonderful place, but there's something about the rigorous regulations of American National parks that really make me want to find some rules to break; only not the sort that would result in getting gored by a Buffalo, or mauled by a bear. It was great seeing the Buffalo. Years before we'd dragged my visiting mother out to see the ones in Golden Gate Park. It's hard not to imagine that the GGP gang are rather embarrassed. We overheard a nearby woman saying "Oh look one of them is actually standing up today." So yes, the Yellowstone bison were awesome in comparison, swaggering around like they owned the place, it was far easier to shrug off the "my species almost made your species extinct" guilt.

We also saw a moose, deer, a coyote, an eagle, and Lol saw some sort of Marmotish creature. We ambled around the thermal features, and Carl (Alice's toy dog) fell in and had to be fished out. We watched a photographer take pictures of a woman who was striking yoga poses on a half submerged picnic table in Yellowstone river, while their dog anxiously strained at the leash. We picnicked, and that night we slept in a log cabin at what was Buffalo Bill Cody's hunting lodge. It made my eyes itch, but it was pretty.

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