I took the community bus down to West Yellowstone, passing along a beautiful landscape, a river winding through the valley surrounded by mountains, here and there you can see some men fly-fishing, 3 cowboys were riding along a path a little further away.....I arrived in West Yellowstone on Tuesday evening, and since I had to take the bus back on Thursday, I just had 1 day to spend in Yellowstone NP. I took all of Yellowstone in one day- grand loop tour on Wednesday to see as much as I could- and it was just awesome- I can name the places I've been to, but it's hard to describe, you just have to see it !!!! We went to Mammoth Hot Springs ( which reminded me a little of Pammukale/Turkey ), to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone ( lovely color ) and to the Old Faithful and all those geyser basins with hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles. And yes, we saw a lot of wildlife: deer, elk & moose, an osprey in the canyon, grizzly & black bears and dozens of BUFFALLOS! Just to see them standing further away in the prairie,with all the steam of the fumaroles in the background made a great picture, but some of them stood right next to the road, one even walked along the road, another one just sat there, facing the crowd....well, I had to leave, heading back to Bozeman and going on to Salt Lake City on Thursday evening...arriving on a coooold morning in the city of mormons. It just felt like fall finally found me, so I knew that I wouldn't stay very long over there before heading back south to chase the summer. Went to see Temple Square with the temple and the tabernacle ( I love this word!!! ), unfortunally you couldn't go inside as they are rebuilding the Tabernacle and you would have to " prepare " yourself to be allowed to enter the temple. I listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on sunday morning and headed for one last time towards the Temple Square to kill some time ( and that was really easy because of all those mormon-sisters who longed to talk to me ) before I took a tour to the great salt lake and the huge copper mine ( it looks like the pyramids upside down ) in the afternoon. I planned to leave in the evening - heading straight towards Durango....when something else came up, but this story will have to wait till I write my next post.