Posts by FlyingPenguin

And so, the day of the big 20-mile hike finally arrived! Once again recapping some back story here: Way back in 2009, during my first trip to Yellowstone as an…

So, at the end of my previous post, I left myself waking up in my tent around 2:00 am when my second C-PAP battery died on me. I spent the…

When I tell people about my various trips to Yellowstone, I am often asked whether or not I also drove down into Grand Teton National Park at all while I…

So, the plan for the morning of “geyser day” was for me to drive down to Fishing Bridge (the RV park) to meet up with everyone else, and for us…

Okay, forget what I said about “writing about this trip differently.” I thought I was going to just do a few posts, covering two or three days per post, rather…

This was a somewhat different trip from other trips that I’ve taken (and written about) in recent years—and accordingly, I may end up writing about it in a somewhat different…

I planned to road-trip home from the Grand Canyon in just two days, which meant driving about 12 hours each day—a lot of driving! Plus, thanks to the no-daylight-savings-time-in-Arizona issue…

As you might expect, I woke up with some rather sore leg muscles on this morning. At first, it felt like I could barely walk! But it was my last…

This, then, became the "big day" of my trip—the day on which, per the plan that I’d hatched the previous day, I hiked the farthest into (and then, later, back…

I had hopes of getting a really early start this morning; if I did, maybe I could make it all the way down to the 3-mile rest house on Bright…

Partly because I got off to a much later start on this day than most others during my trip (thanks to that 10-hour sleep), I decided that it was a…

I ended up deciding to start things out by joining a ranger-led hike going just a little ways down into the canyon on this first morning. The information said to…

This post may not be among the most fascinating or deep of my writings, but if you’re interested in some details about the rest of my journey out to Grand…

The highlights of the last two days of my trip can be covered via a fairly brief summary, I think. I got up nice and early on Saturday morning, took…

I had spent quite a bit of time pouring over my book of hiking trails trying to decide how to spend my last day in the park. I wanted to…

Thursday was the day on which my whitewater rafting adventure on the Yellowstone River (which I’d booked way back in March or April, when I was initially planning this trip)…

My plans for this day consisted, for the most part, of finishing up and/or trying again at the things that I’d set out to do the previous day: I wanted…

Before I dive into my second full day at Yellowstone, one thing that I feel compelled to mention is how amazing the weather was the whole time I was out…

So, I had intended to start slowly and kind of ease into the high level of arduous physical activity that I expected to be doing while I was out there…but…

Here are some notes and thoughts that I jotted down about the second day of my trip, along with some pictures from the said day. This day basically consisted of…

Okay, so posting some more pictures here, a few at a time and accompanied by varying amounts of narrative. These five are from the 1st day of the trip, on…

Our day at Noah's Ark was highly enjoyable despite a bit of a mishap that we really should have been able to avoid. Here's the story: The day got off…