Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:03 What could be to travel. That's podcasts. Here we share our favorite destinations, travel tips, ideas for saving money and stories from our adventures. Be sure to check out our show notes at two travel dads.com/podcast-episodes. Welcome back to another episode of to travel dads podcast. I'm Chris and I'm Rob and this is our second part of our Yellowstone national park. Guys are tour tour overview. I think overview, it's basically we are taking you through all the different guys or basins to tell you what's worth your time and um, have we been through every single Geyser basin? The only one we haven't been to is the black sand Geyser basin. Got us. We can't come in on that one until we can't. Thanks for, thanks for starting out by pointing out what we can't do, but we can talk about 98 we can set exactly what we can talk about every other guys or based on, just had to ask because I was like, wait, how have we been to every single one?
Speaker 1 01:01 No, that was the one that we were going to do. But then Oliver had to use the bathroom and so well you had to do that. Oh yeah. Emergency turnaround. Yeah. So again, if you listen to the episode, just prior planning is very important as we're trying to get to all of these hands is so important. Um, so where we finished last time we had covered everything from old faithful in the biscuit basin to the West thumb and Norris Geyser basin artists, paint pots, all that stuff. Um, that's where I brought my camera and that's where you broke your camera. Every episode. Talk about breaking the camera. Um, now we are going to cover, um, some of the lesser known spots, um, that are really remarkable and totally worth adding to your itinerary when you visit Yellowstone even though they're not on anybody's top 10, but ours some good times.
Speaker 1 01:52 Um, and also a quick thing that we didn't call out in our last episode that I wanted to make sure to talk about to start is um, so Yellowstone, it gets cold, right? Yes, it does. And it gets really hot too. Yes. But what I wanted to call out as something to consider is if you want to take pictures and, or just see the geysers for the splendor that they are, you do need to visit them when it is not super duper chilly cold outside. Because for at least the colorful things like what we're going to start talking about in just a moment. The thermophiles with thermophiles. Yeah. So the, the thing about visiting when it's super cold is because the waters that are bubbling up are so hot, they produce a ton of steam steam just like so like when you're boiling water on a stove.
Speaker 1 02:45 Yes. Thank you. Um, but so with all of that steam comes obstructed views, basically a lot of things, you're going to look at the reflections and you don't get to see exactly the beautiful colors. Exactly. So when you visit early in the morning or, um, on a very, very cold day, your view is not going to be the same even when you were up close. So just wanted to call that out because the first thing we're talking about today is grand prismatic spring, which we visited first thing in the morning when it was super chilly out. And the steam, um, the steam made it both amazing and a total bummer. Well, it made it a bummer when you were trying to take pictures of it. However, it was still a beautiful sight regardless. And I remember, uh, it was so blue, there was this beautiful blue haze right above the Springs and I mean it's still absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1 03:42 You won't get the Nat geo picture that you hoping for. Um, but you'll still just be in awe of what you see. And so I mean that's, that's just it is that because there is so much steam when you visit, um, the specific, specifically the colorful hot Springs, um, if you visit them when it's so cold and there is so much spring or spring rad when there's so much steam, um, it gives you that filtered view of everything. But it does reflect, this is what is so cool. It reflects the color of the pool that's directly below it. So, like for example, when we were at midway Geyser basin, that's where you'll find grand prismatic. Spring is the midway Geyser basin. Um, when you are there, the um, blues and the reds and the oranges reflect up into the steam. So as you're walking, even though you can't see this enormous hot spring, that is the most colorful thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 04:36 Um, the steam itself, I keep on wanting to say spring instead of steam. I noticed the steam itself is beautiful. So you know, you don't have to be up high. You can be at the same level as the hot spring and still see the color, which is pretty cool. But if you do want to see it from up above, there's a trick. You see, you actually don't access that from the midway Geyser basin. No, I mean you think you can and you're looking around and trying to figure out UCLA seems like you can't just people walking around, you're like, Oh, there should be an overlook somewhere. And then you look and you see like, they're like look like ants. Just like these people are walking around and going up to somebody, you'd be like, there's these boardwalks everywhere. One of them has to take us to an overlook.
Speaker 1 05:21 Nope. It's like a boardwalk. However, there is a place. Yeah. So you actually, you need to leave. The midway guys are based in the head South. Like you're going to old faithful and you'll see something that says, um, fairy falls hike. It does not say grand prismatic spring overlook. Like you would hope it would. It says very false Trailhead. So you need to park in that very small parking lot and then you have to do a hike. It's about a mile up to the overlook. And there is actually, despite it not saying it, at the start of the trail, there is a sign that points you up to the overlook once you are almost there, which is cool. And then you just hike up. It's not too far. Um, it's not a crazy climb or anything like that, but it just takes you up above the grand prismatic spring and you'll have to check the show notes because the view from the overlook is amazeballs.
Speaker 1 06:13 Oh yeah, absolutely beautiful. Because you see the Valley, you see the spring and the surrounding hot Springs, we saw bison off of the distance from up there. It was amazing. So it's one of my favorite places. Yeah. Yeah. We did it in the late afternoon right before sunset and it was just, it was incredible. So, and um, something else to kind of note and think about is that in national parks you can't use drones. So if you are hoping to get excited about that, I know drones are the most obnoxious sound ever when they're cool. But yeah, the pictures they get are cool. The videos they get are cool as a normal person wanting to relax and enjoy things. The sound of that zoo sneaking up behind you is really obnoxious or like a natural wonder that wants to live on forever. That has a drone falling into it.
Speaker 1 07:03 So anyways, so you can't use drones in national parks. So the best view that you can get of something as amazing as the grand prismatic spring is by doing the ferry falls trail hike. So there you go. Add that to your Yellowstone itinerary slash bucket list and um, you'll be very glad you did. So, um, the next stop on our drive is another one of those kind of obscure spots that um, you might just drive past, not thinking it's anything, but it's actually really incredible and I'm worth the time. It is called fire hole Lake drive. So, um, the Firehall river is what flows from the Yellowstone, um, the old faithful area and kind of winds its way through the park. Then I think it joins up with maybe the Madison river. Maybe it's the Yellowstone river. I'm not sure. I can't answer. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 07:56 Anyways. Um, so fire Lake drive has this amazing collection of hot Springs and kind of random geysers all along and um, it's beautiful. Has some of the best photo ops in the park. That was super amazing. Yeah. And there's like nobody there and there's like that spring river. It's like all those boardwalks crossing over the water just flowing. The steam is rising and um, yeah, that's, that's kind of at the end of fire. Whole Lake drive. It's all part of it. It is. So when you first get there though, the very first thing that you come to is I'm fire hole spring, which we parked the car thinking, ah, so what? It's a little spring. It was the most farty and hilarious active bubbly spring. Wasn't there something about it that was out of sync? Yes. It was making these weird big bubbles and because of the way the light was hitting it, it looked like the bubbles were doing something else weird.
Speaker 1 08:49 Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. And they were supposed to like break, but they didn't like the, there was something just like it was off. Yeah. So the, when you, when you're looking at a hot spring, the vent that the water comes up through or that super heating the water is usually not directly in the center. It's kind of off to the side. And that was the case at firehose Springs. So when you look at it, you're like, Oh, there comes the bubble. And as you're watching it come up in, make this big, like that's my Geyser sound. Um, it was actually showing up in like a different part of the pond. Totally weird. Really cool. Strange. You just have to go check it out. It's a beautiful thing about us. Not quite right. Yeah. So, and it's the very, very first thing you see once you're on fire, whole Lake drive.
Speaker 1 09:33 So good. Um, next thing along the way is the great fountain Geyser. And actually one of my favorite pictures that we ever got at the four of us is sitting waiting for the great fountain guys to go off. That was the one, you know, that had the, um, Oh, I know. Yeah, the big circular terrace. Look at our show notes because it's a beautiful picture. Yeah, I thought we were, we went to the other place right across the way first though. So, I guess that's why I was confused that where it had another Geyser up top and a bunch of the water continued to flow down. Kind of like, yeah, they're like a flat or down to where that guys were. Space was no, so that's over at the hot Lake. Yeah. So hot Lake is that fire hole. We're still not there. That's still his fire hole, Lake drive.
Speaker 1 10:17 But that's still is at the end of it. Got it. So cause so you're at the great fountain Geyser and that's where we got that really amazing picture and it's just beautiful because there's all the travertine terraces and perfectly still water and beautiful reflections. All the colors because of the thermophiles and the thermophiles gorgeous. And then we were actually, we were sitting there getting, you know, our picture taken by a random stranger. Um, and then we saw the white dome guys are going off across the way, probably like a half mile away. And so real quick, we ran and jumped in the car to continue on fire, the whole tribe Lake drive and we got to the white dome guys are right as it stopped. But it's, gosh, that's, that's a really cool, when you see one side, it was super cool. This whole area was amazing and there's like nobody here because it's not on the main drag and it's not famous.
Speaker 1 11:01 And so we got to experience all this stuff with almost nobody around. But the wide Dem Geyser is really amazing because it's got this, um, it has a travertine cone that's, you know, built up by explosion after explosion after explosion and all the mineral deposits that is ridiculously tall. It's, it's unlike most of the guys that you see like over at the old faithful Geyser basin. Even old faithful itself actually only has kind of a small mound. It doesn't have like the sort of weird cone, um, but the white dome guys or does, so you actually get to see this cool like natural sculpture that is spewing water everywhere. And I think that was super duper cool. Um, but now we can talk about what you were talking about. The, um, the weird place with the really erratic, funny little geysers and the rushing, steaming water and all that.
Speaker 1 11:55 So I'm nearly at the end of fire. Whole Lake drive. Oh, and that's right. And there was a bison there too. Oh yeah, I remember that. It was just like kind of walking around the road, just wondering, you know, should I cross this boiling water or shouldn't I, um, that's the daily struggle of a bison in Yellowstone to sink or not to sink. Um, but anyway, so we got to the hot Lake area and there was the Artesia Geyser. And the hopeful guys are, they're just these little spitter S buttery. Um, they're basically, they're like upgraded hot Springs and they're beautiful and they stink and they're hilarious to watch. And I mean, they, I don't know, they don't get more than what, maybe like three or four feet tall. Yeah. And I think there's one, look, it happens like every couple of minutes. I mean, it's just a cool spot. Yeah. So Yellowstone is that weird, unpredictable area where you show up and one second it's just this little Lake and then all of a sudden this Lake has a fountain, so, and that's exactly what it was there and that all pulls out of that Valley.
Speaker 1 12:59 I can't speak to sometimes that all flows down through the boiling cascades into the hot Lake and the hot Lake is it? I mean is just that it's just this Lake that whatever temperature is outside, you still see it just steaming and there's boardwalks that go around a portion of it and boardwalks that take you across the boiling cascades and it's just, it really is fascinating. It's a hot Lake. I mean, how many hot legs do you see? It's a hot Lake. Yeah. There was that other hot Lake that we saw, but it wasn't called hot Lake. You know what? That's in a different Yellowstone. Yeah, it's a no, no. I just mean like outside of Yellowstone. Yeah. When do you see a hot Lake? Like, Oh, look at that Lake. Oh, careful. It's hot. Like that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 13:47 It doesn't happen. You are correct. It does. Not often happen. Good times. These are the things we talking about in our car when we're on road trips anyways, there's some wine happening. Why as we record this too. So, you know, keeping it authentic. So anyways, fire whole Lake drive, easy to drive past, easy to forget. Totally worth your time. Do it. Um, the next one is another spot that's very close to that that really surprised us. And the kids loved, I think it was probably the highlight of Yellowstone and that is the fountain paint pots area. So the fountain paint pots and I'm really bummed. So I accidentally deleted a whole bunch of video footage and then I tried to restore it and it didn't work. It's all corrupted now, but I got this amazing video of the kids just running through this, guys of that kept on going into the fountain Geyser.
Speaker 1 14:46 And that's what fountain paint pots is named after. So this Geyser basin, um, has a good collection of paint pots. We talked about those in the last episode when we talked about the, um, artists paint pots. It's so basically it's this really thick clay soup that, um, the acid from the Springs eats the rock and turns it into this clay. And then the clay boils and bubbles and gas escapes and it goes block, block, block. But it's really weird. So fountain paint pots has some of those paint pots as well, including like the leather pot, which is this big nasty area with cracked dried gross licking clay, um, and steam. But then there are some other cool things there too, one of which is the fountain Geyser, which I don't know if I've ever seen so active and fun and funny a Geyser as the fountain Geyser. And the kids were, I don't know. Would you say they loved it? They were, I'm trying to remember which one that was. That was the one that they kept on running through.
Speaker 2 15:51 Okay. Yeah. So there was also a huge group of Asian tourists who, yeah, no, no, no, no. So you, okay. So I wanted to make sure it was the same one, um, because maybe, I know you lost that video, but I still have footage because I recorded it. Um, and it was hilarious watching them. I'm so excited that you have some because I really believe that I have it so I have to check in confirm. Um, but anyways, yeah, no, it was hilarious because um,
Speaker 1 16:21 it,
Speaker 2 16:21 the, the guys who was just blowing off and it was so steamy, you could barely see while you're on the boardwalk, but you're just getting splattered with everything that gets, we're like running and ducking down for cover. I had to cover my camera lens because it had Geyser water all over it. Absolutely. <inaudible> my face and my glasses. Oh my gosh. I know. It was so funny. It was kind of bonkers, but it was, it was amazing. And I have
Speaker 1 16:45 just say as far as like fun, random moments go, Oh yeah. Now Chris is pulling up pictures on his phone that are not flattering. Maybe I'll include those in the show notes. We'll see. But as far as like actual, like fun in the moment goes, the fountain Geyser was the most fun I've ever had interacting with the earth. I know that sounds kind of weird and maybe a little hippie, but I'm literally hilarious. Totally worth it. And again, it's one of the spots totally easy to drive past because you don't know about it, you haven't heard about it. It's worth going and right next to it, it's got a couple other guys who just got the jet Geyser, which goes off at the same time. So when you think you can kind of run an escape, you get sprayed by a different Geyser, which is awesome. And then the jelly Geyser is also going off. So they all kind of go in tandem and so yeah. Um, it's a hoot.
Speaker 2 17:38 Yeah, no it was super fun. Like if you're there and the guy's just going off and being as active as they were when we were there. It's a cool experience and they do it every hour. So it's, they're just as consistent
Speaker 1 17:51 if not more so than old faithful. They're just not as tall but so much more fun. Oh my gosh. And it's really funny cause Chris just pulled up the video and the faces that the kids are making. They're actually like doing this thing where they roll. They think it's like stop, drop and roll or like, yeah, ducking cover. Like, so I'm going to figure out a way to embed this video in the show notes because it's hilarious. Oh my gosh. I haven't watched it since we were there. It's Epic. Okay. Moving on. Um, there's just a couple other quick things I wanted to call out about the fountain paint pots area. And there are some of them, it's just that there's these beautiful hot Springs. They're there too. So yes, there's fun. Yes, it's hilarious. But then the Celestin pool and the silent spring, they are, um, if you choose to like skip over the biscuit basin that we talked about in that last episode, um, these pools kind of make up for that skip biscuit basin to go there.
Speaker 1 18:47 You would? Yeah. Okay. Well there you go. I think biscuit basins, one of the coolest spots and it totally is, but um, yeah, you know, there you have it. Chris says he'd get biscuit basin to come to fountain paint pots. And that way you get crazy hilarious geysers and the beautiful pools. So wallah. Yeah. What's not to like about that? Let's move on. Um, our next stop is the mud volcanoes. So between the West thumb Geyser basin and um, Hayden Valley, you are going to come across the mud volcanoes, which are very different from anything else that we've talked about so far. And when I'm trying to think on our first trip to Yellowstone, do we go to the med volcanoes? I don't think so. So this last trip, I feel like it might've been your first time there. Was it? Nope. Oh no, because we went the first time with the boys on, um, back in 2015 cause I remember getting a picture of them with Elliot in a stroller because he's a baby and he had his helmet on and um, all of her was standing next to the stroller with the most disgusted look on his face because it smelled so bad.
Speaker 1 19:57 And Elliot was wearing a yellow onesy. Got it. Anyways, I know, I'm just thinking about this. Um, so the mud volcanoes, they're really cool and um, you know, I think it's worth a stop just because they are so unique and different from everything else. Yeah. I mean, again, it's like the artists paint pots. It's like, where else do you see things like this churning? It's like, it gives you this disgusting smell that makes you cough, just like that actually totally does. And the kids were hilarious because, yeah. Okay. Yeah. It smells bad, but it is, you're, you're watching like these pools of like mud and just kind of earth just bubble and churn and spout and it's just, it's just weird and it's very different from the paint pots and that they, it's, it's so much bigger and because there's so much more water in it, it's much more fluid and it literally is spouting, not just like blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 20:58 But like, yeah, it's worrying. It's just interesting. Right. And everything is named after a dragon there. That's the other thing. Yeah. It's black dragon. Spring Dragon's mouth, spring dragon cauldron. And you never know. Like, I mean, this last time we were there, we were there early in the morning, it was freezing cold outside. My fingertips are dead, but uh, but you would see these huge like bison pies, um, throughout this, this place. And so, you know, humans, we have to walk in the boardwalk. Bison, they can walk wherever they want and do whatever they want, including those kind of fragile crust zones. Exactly. So I think it would be really cool if you were to actually see a bison around there while you're there. We only saw the leftovers. So I've been there when there's been bison there. So I was there in 1999 right around that time ago.
Speaker 1 21:48 I know. And um, but it was very memorable because while I was there at the mud volcanoes, a bison was crossing the boardwalk and actually stepped through a board and got stuck. Oh, I remember you telling me. That's right. Yeah. And they had to close the trail, but like we could watch it from where we were and they had to like the Rangers were down there like actually like freeing the bison who got stuck in this boardwalk. Totally weird. Yeah. So you know, the wildlife of Ellison, they go where they want to go. But um, other cool things about the mud volcanoes to know though is that it's actually one of the newest areas in Yellowstone national park to um, be interesting to tourists because, um, most of the features there showed up in the, from like 1945 to like 1965 where literally all of the sudden this Lake appeared and there was mud and steam shooting everywhere and the, um, really cool the churning cauldron and it's, it's right off of the walkway.
Speaker 1 22:47 That was one of the ones that just showed up one day. Yeah. And I guess, you know, I mean, that's something that's interesting about Yellowstone is that you never know when things are going to change because of how the earth changes. So one small shift in something could stop flow of like water and gas and heat or whatever, to some other area that could have been like an amazing feature. So you got to get to Yellowstone and see some of these amazing things before something changes and yeah. And stops it from becoming something that's amazing. Yeah. So I mean right there in that parking lot at the mud volcanoes, they had to add special barriers in certain spots because Oh, a steam vent opened up in the parking lot. Yeah. But, um, and you know, speaking of that whole phenomenon of things shifting and changing, that usually happens when there's an earthquake or something in Yellowstone.
Speaker 1 23:37 But I can remember when I was younger, so we're moving on to mammoth hot Springs now is what we're going to talk about. I can remember when I was younger and water flowed off of almost all the mammoth hot Springs area, including like the Minerva Tara. So it was really famous for being so flowy. And um, now when you go, it only flows when it rains right there, that specific terrorist spot. But, um, yeah, so mammoth hot Springs, let's chit chat about that. It is one of the coolest, most beautiful, easiest places to actually visit in Yellowstone. Um, it is right inside the park from the Gardner entrance, so that's the North entrance where you go through the Roosevelt pizza peace arch, um, that there's a couple of different ways you can visit it. So you can park down below by the visitor center that really focuses on wildlife and the hot Springs and like early Yellowstone culture and it's by the hotel, um, the mammoth hotel or you can go up top to the upper terrorists loop and you can drive around and that doesn't take you through all the Springs, but it takes you through another portion of the Springs that are really, really cool and totally worth visiting.
Speaker 1 24:47 There's lots of elk up there. Um, but yeah, the, our recommendation I would say is to park down below and then do the big loop. So you start down at the Liberty cap, which is, it's an extinct Geyser. It's a huge, um, travertine cone. And then you just start hiking up and you go through like the Cleopatra terrace and you go past the Minerva terrace. Um, and that's where you see things like the mound terrorists is the first big flowing one that you come across when you're coming up from like the hotel area and it's colorful. It is, um, predominantly white, I would say with some Brown and orange streaks. But then in some of the lower air areas, the thermophiles are really like vibrant yellow and it just, the terracing is so different. And when I say that, I mean it's like, it's like steps, like stare natural staircases that build all the way up.
Speaker 1 25:45 Yeah. And, um, but yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely not a place that I would consider to be accessible because of all the staircases, but it's still there. There are certain parts of mammoth hot Springs that you can view with a stroller or, um, with a wheelchair. It's not that difficult to get to the upper terrace areas, but, um, if you want to do the hike, it's definitely not something that they have made accommodations for. Um, from the top, if you want to park up there and get dropped up off their drop dropped off up there where at the top of the terraces, kind of at the start of the um, upper terrace drive. That's where you can see some of the most beautiful spots, including like the nymph spring in the Canary spring. You get some really incredible colors and um, kinda like we talked about with the other guys are basins where you get the really hot pools that had that really amazing turquoise or deep blue.
Speaker 1 26:42 That's what you get from the nymph spring in the Canary spring and in mammoth hot spring up there too. So that's where you remember where we can kind of walk down. Um, and then the guys are, or the hot Springs are flowing underneath the boardwalk and you walk down the Hill and you can see it actually like bubbling up and Oh yeah. It's super beautiful all around there. Yeah, it's funny each time that we've been, we, we've never been there on a perfectly sunny day. So no, I got to visit that spot twice this summer and each day it was kind of overcast and gray, but that's kind of the best time to see it because number one, it's not quite so crazy hot. Um, and also the terraces are so glowing white and yellow that against the gray sky, if you're a photographer, it makes for some of the most beautiful pictures. I'm going to make sure that I actually do maybe like a little photo essay to put up on the blog so you can look at it because the photos that we have are just, they're remarkable. It's so beautiful. So, um, anything else that you wanted to kind of talk about with geysers or mammoth? Hot Springs specifically
Speaker 2 27:47 can't step on the geysers. So just so you know, when you see that picture of Oliver, like trying to step on a Geyser and he like gets hurt, um, just don't know.
Speaker 1 27:56 So path. So just to clarify what he's talking about at every single Geyser area there is <inaudible> picture and it's of a little boy stepping off of the trail to an exploding Geyser and it looks like our oldest. I just kept telling all her, Oh look, look, you did it again. You stepped on. My guys are, yeah, no, so it's genuine warning and you'll see signs that say thin crust. What's the state boiling water? No, keep your kids on the boardwalk. Yeah, but no, you'll see things that say thin crust stay on trail because not everything is boardwalk. There are just basic trails and truly if you step off that trail you are stepping on too thin earth crust. Like it could be, it looks normal but it could just be like an inch thick, crisp, travertine that if you step on it, there's probably a small stream going rapidly.
Speaker 2 28:46 Yeah. Not like when you're walking on like an ice pond and you're hoping like the ice is going to stay, you know, solid and you fall into like freezing cold water. No, this is like you're going to be burned.
Speaker 1 28:55 Yeah. Burning, burned and hot acid water. Yeah. So, Oh, so just think about safety, careful. And um, you'll see tourists that are not paying attention to things and they step off and usually the Rangers yell at them but don't follow their example, huh.
Speaker 2 29:12 Yeah. No, I um, so going back to your question about like other things about the hot Springs. So Namath is really cool because we've seen in addition to the, the really great hot Springs this last time, there was a ton of elk there. Oh yes. So cool. So in addition to seeing, you know, just the really great Springs and colored beautiful colors and pools, uh, there's a lot of wildlife around there too. Um, and just right there in the same place, there's um, you know, great spots to go get some food if you need it. There's wifi in the visitor center, like it's a checkup.
Speaker 1 29:42 Um, it's pretty solid. I actually did a whole conference call from there. Um, but, uh, so it's funny cause in one of, one of the groups that I'm in in Facebook that talks about national parks, somebody asked if there was wifi in Yellowstone and one person's like, Nope, there's none. I said, actually in this one spot, in the basement of the visitor center in the basement, yeah, it's right by the entrance to the bathroom. There is wifi there. And you can actually see people who, you know, don't shame people for having to take a work call on vacation if they're able to break away and have a great vacation with their family and then have to take one or call to make it so that they can have a great vacation with their family, let them do that. And you know what the place you can do that is in the basement of the mammoth visitor center.
Speaker 1 30:27 Yeah. And the, and across the way. So afterwards, um, there at the little restaurant like snack shop, they've got good chili, just saying, Oh yeah, yup. Um, but, uh, but no, actually I enjoyed my, I've had three meals there at the summer and I enjoyed all of them. So. Yeah. Uh, but I mean overall, um, guys are, is, is Yellowstone. Yeah. So you need to figure out what's important to you to see when it comes to geysers and, and plan out your days, um, and which routes you're going to go on and what you want to see. Um, because the park is so huge, you need to, you need to do some pre planning so that you can see everything you want. Yeah. Perfect. Our next episode is about, um, the actual driving routes around Yellowstone and the purpose of that is going to be to literally just help you plan your days because you don't want to waste time going back and forth from outside the park to inside the park or having to drive the same stretch of road every single day.
Speaker 1 31:31 Um, you know, spending three or four days in Yellowstone is a real treat. You don't want to spend it in the car. So that will be our next episode. So be sure to tune in for that. Thanks for hanging out with us. Was we chatted about geysers. Um, like we said, there is another episode besides this one all about the geysers cause there are so many, we had to split it into two. Um, if you get any questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment on the blog. Um, so that's gonna be at to travel, that's dot com. You can go to, to travel to ads.com/podcast-episodes and you can find the other Yellowstone episodes as well as everything else. Yeah. And if you broke your camera too by like trying to sway a, be away, like share your story, feel free to share your stories, share your tips, ask us questions.
Speaker 1 32:15 We will take care of, um, any sort of inquiry that you have that we can help with. And I guess tune in next time to hear more about our favorite national park. Sounds great. All right. Sorry. Yeah, maybe not your favorite national park. Who's yours? Is it your favorite gold stone? Yeah. No. Okay. So maybe we'll save something else for a different episode. It's great, but it's not my favorite. So I just have to ask real quick, what is your favorite? Hmm. I think it has to be glacier. All right. Okay. So maybe we'll record some glacier episodes too. Yeah. Okay. Good times. Alright. Diverse world by just saying, okay. Thanks for hanging out with us. We will come at you again, um, in a couple of days with another episode. Have a great day and we'll talk to you later too. Child deaths podcast is written by Rob and Chris Taylor and produced by Rob Taylor is Squamish Washington. If you would like to be on two trail dads, podcasts, or sponsor, please visit to travel dads.com/work.
