55 on the fly

Here is part 2 of our trip on the Beartooth Highway. Buffalo in Lamar Valley - one of my favorite places. At the end of our eastward trip on Beartooth Highway is a town called Red Lodge.  It is an old town with lots of unique shops to visit (much better than my Livingston experience).  We found - of all things - an English pub where we had a nice lunch.  Doug had fish and chips and I had a cornish pasty which brought back memories of my trip to England with my mom.  We walked through some of the shops and then got back on the road to brave the heights one more time.  The views were spectacular the second time since we were seeing everything from a different angle.  We stopped at several pull-outs along the way to marvel at the scenery.  When we entered YNP again we drove until we got to Lamar Valley - one of my favorite places.  We saw hundreds of bison in the valley and some were blocking traffic for a while.  We ate our picnic dinner at...

Today we drove through the northeastern part of YNP through Cook City to get onto the Beartooth Highway.  It is rated the most scenic highway in North America.  Check out the details at the website.   http://www.beartoothhighway.com/index.html I have attached only a few of the many photos that we took today and we knew that we would be disappointed in them.  Not that the photos are bad - they are awesome.  It is just that when we look at them, they do not capture the vastness, the majesty, the sheer height of the mountains that we traveled through and on.  Travelling on this highway was a little daunting.  At times we were so high up that we felt we could touch the clouds.  Of course when you are up that high, it is a long way down.  I tried not to panic as we edged our way back and forth on the sides of the mountains going around hairpin turns that had you looking out over nothing but air.  We climbed up for what seemed like forever awa...