Travel to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks – Amateur Traveler Episode 183 Transcript

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Travel to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks – Episode 183 Transcript

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Erik: Well, that would have been an interesting place to be doing podcasts from. I stayed in West Yellowstone too. I stayed in a particularly good KOA in West Yellowstone. It’s actually quite a bit outside, eight or nine miles outside the city itself. And it’s a beautiful spot. It’s hard to find spots that aren’t beautiful in that area.

Chris: Right.

Erik: Anywhere you are going to stay, you are going to have the beautiful sunsets over the mountains. That’s one of the advantages of the area, you are going to have to try to find an ugly spot there and I don’t think you can.

Chris: As we go to wind this down, is there anything else you wish that you had known before you went there?

Erik: I can’t really say there is anything that I had wished I had known. My first visit there was like you, when I was a kid my parents took me out there. And I just remember the awe of the whole thing. I was 12 years old when we went out there the first time and at 12 years old you’re starting to get a little bit jaded towards things but there’s no way that you can be jaded in this park. It is such a place of wonder that anybody of any age can love it. As far as things I wished I’d known there are just so many resources out there now with the internet and guidebooks and everything. If I could just recommend one guidebook real quick. The Yellowstone Association is a non-profit organization. And they can be found at Yellowstoneassociation.org. They sell for $7.00 or at least that’s what it was when I bought it. This beautiful color guide. It’s called Yellowstone – The Official Guide to Touring America’s First National Park. It gives you a lot of what you going to need to know so you’re not caught off guard when you get out there. It doesn’t have lodging and that kind of information. It’s more of a park guide, but it’s a great place to start.

Chris Ok. You really know you’re in Yellowstone when ….what?

Erik: Two things: the smell of sulfur and that very odd sound that elk make. It’s their call. It’s like a shrill whistle. You look at elk and they’re big and you think that they’ve got to make … like the bison, you hear them make the real husky huffing sound. Well, the elk is like a sheer whistle. The fist time your hear it, if you don’t see it coming from them, you’re not going to know what it’s coming from. It’s almost like a whistle/scream. It’s very, very strange.

Chris: And then if you had to summarize Yellowstone, and we’ll throw in the Tetons also, in three words, what three words would you use?

Erik: Geothermal, diverse and just gorgeous. I hate to use one that so many other people have used there but every turn you make in Yellowstone you think, ‘Boy, this is amazing how lucky I am to have this as part of my country.’

Chris: Erik, thanks so much for coming back on the show and sharing one of your favorite and also one of my favorite National Parks and telling us a little bit about it.

Erik: Thanks Chris and thanks for all the hard work you do on the podcast. It’s a real pleasure to listen to.

Chris: Well, thank you.

Thanks to Cindy the intern Amateur Traveler for transcribing this episode

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