I thought Wednesday was a whirlwind of activity. Thursday was a tornado, and we never even got in the car.
After breakfast in the cabin, and slathering on the SPF4000 sunblock, we left the cabin around eight to hit the Visitors Center for geyser times.
Old Faithful again.
Cell phone coverage in the park, at least with our carrier, is virtually non-existent, but due to an inexplicable glitch in the cosmos, Sandi was able to call her Mom. It's around eleven in the morning Philly time.
Off into the basin. These are cyanobacterial thermophilic formations in the hot water around Plume and Giantess geysers.
The sun is up in the cloudless sky, and we're wondering if SPF4000 sunblock is adequate. Do they make SPF 1 million?
We knew that the window to Riverside Geyser was open, and having seen it in 2012 we knew we wanted to see it erupt again. Off we go, past Aurum,
past Tardy,
past Giant,
and past Grotto, of which more later.
