2025 Vacation: Yellowstone National Park Day 2

Good Morning and Welcome Back to Yellowstone National Park!

Today I'm sharing photos and videos from day 2 of our visit to the third largest national park in the lower 48 states. Alaska hosts the five largest including Denali which I visited in 2021, followed by Death Valley and Glacier (which I visited in 2017). 

Anyway...

Day 2 in Yellowstone was just as exciting as day 1 only a lot ... smellier LOL! We traipsed around the Colloidal Pool, drove around Mamoth Hotsprings lower terraces (upper right pic is of Angel Terrace) and visited the Rosevelt Arch at the North entrance.

The Colloidal pool is located in Norris Geyser Basin and believe me, if you're sensitve to awful scents, you want to stay away from this! If you listen closely, you'll hear my honey ask if there is "smell-a-vision" on my phone LOL!

The many colors and various terrain that can be found in Yellowstone is what makes it a must see. In fact, many say if you can only visit One national park in your life, make it this one.

It is certainly a memory I'll never forget.

While there, we grabbed some lunch at the store in Canyon Village, which had nice, clean restrooms despite no seat covers and hand dryers - but still had me humming a happy tune 😍

I hope you've enjoyed this recap of 2025 vacation memories. We're not done yet. Next we're heading to South Dakota and Badlands so check back and come along for the ride!

Until next time, travel safe.

PamT

2025 Vacation: Yellowstone National Park Day 1

Good Morning from my soul's happy place and my home away from home, Bandera, TX! 

I drove up here last Wednesday (April 29th) and let me tell you, I am SO glad to be here. I've talked about how much this place to me in previous posts on what I'm now calling my "book" blog. You can find them here and here so I won't go into much about that but get straight into day 1 of Yellowstone National Park. **PLEASE NOTE: The Sliver Spur Guest Ranch mentioned in these two posts is not operating at the same capacity so if you go and read them, do so to understand on how much I LOVE and Treasure Bandera.** 

Now, on to Yellowstone...

If you've never been to Yellowstone National Park, you'll find the drive absolutely breathtaking. Huge rock formations, geysers, waterfalls, pools of boiling sulphur - you name it, it's there. 

Except bears.

I know, I know there ARE bears in Yellowstone but, for all of you who swear you can see them from the road... I saw ZERO bears! I've always said I have bear blood in me because come winter I'd love to hibernate so maybe that's my totem animal and it's bad luck for me to see one. Whatever the reason God has, we didn't see a single large, brown, fuzzy animal. 

Well, except for this guy and many more like him roaming around and blocking traffic... 😏

I've never seen a gyeser erupt so imagine my awe and wonder watching these two...

 Unlike Old Faithful, Beehive only erupts every few days or weeks so we were lucky to see this and it went on for 9 or 11 minutes and is much higher than Old Faithful.

The visitor centers were gorgeous and bathrooms had me singing a happy tune but you had to be careful walking outside because sometimes there were critters like this little fellow (click on the pic to enlarge) letting you know very vocally that you were pestering them LOL!

I mentioned earlier that it would take a couple of posts to recapp my visit to Yellowstone so I'll close this one for now and pray you come back for day 2.

Until next time safe travels!

PamT

2025 Summer Vacation: Red Rock RV Park in Island Park, Idaho

Good Morning Friends,

There's been a LOT going on, (a new book releasing and tax season) therefore, I've fallen a little behind but hoping to get back on track here on Bathroom Blues travel blog. 

We left Salt Lake City on July 12th heading to Yellowstone National Park but our home for the few days we're visiting was Red Rock Rv Park in Island Park, Idaho.

This huge resort is located just 22 miles from Yellowstone and is absolutely stunning. I did not go into the bathrooms there because we had full hookups for the camper, but if the beauty of the rest of the park is any indication, they too were stunning.

What was SO cool was on our way to Red Rock, we stopped at a couple of pitt stop bathrooms along the way. These are not full rest areas, but glorified portapotties BUT they had plenty of paper and hand sanitizer which always has me singing a happy tune. 😉

Another cool thing happened along the way. I was reading a book called Thank and Grow Rich by Pam Grout and in one of the chapters, she talked about seeing birds as signs from God. We had pulled over to let the dog out for a pee break and I saw this beauty...

This isn't the first time I've received signs from God. You can read about them on my spiritual blog, HERE and HERE and HERE.

Anyway, back to our travels!

Yellowstone is SO vast, it will take a few posts to share everything with you but for now, if you're heading in that direction and looking for a great place to stay, check out Red Rock RV Park in Island Park, ID!

Until next time, travel safe!

PamT