The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.
The Boys had fun too.

For the uninitiated, they come with us on every vacation.
Sulfides come burbling up out of the earth and form
these weird formations.

Seriously, it smells like a million rotting eggs.

Or the Jersey Turnpike.
Obligatory Old Faithful shot.

People think of this when they think of Yellowstone.  
What they don't know is there are hundreds of geysers
and basins there...it's like the Earth has a contsant
case of bad constipation.
As crystal clear as this looks, it still smells like ass.

I gagged my way through this part of the trip.
Interestingly, they either look like this...
...or like this.

Guess which one smells worse?
Yes, he was actually this close.

We saw buffalo, bison, elks, antelopes,
coyotes and a bald eagle.

And a raven, who said - and I believe I'm
quoting him here - "Nevermore."

I have no idea what that means.
Everyone has this one moment in their lives when they realize they can't do the
things they used to do.

This picture was taken about 75-100 feet down a steep hill.  Tammi told me not to
go down the hill, and I should have listened.  By the time I had reached the top of
the hill again, I had remembered that we were already 7000 feet above sea level.  It
was at this point that my lungs pretty much defected to Russia.

I looked so awful that another family that was there thought for sure that I was
having a heart attack and ran to their car to get me aspirin.  Before they could
come back, I had already thrown up what I still believe was approximately half my
body weight.

I placed a small makeshift cross in the upchuck with a little sign that read:

R.I.P. Wiley's Youth
Aged 33 ½ Years

Okay, I didn't actually do that last part, but it was still a crappy day.
The boys thought they had come home to
the Mothership.
Cool picture, but still...ewwww!
Everyone goes to Yellowstone,
but not every takes the trip
south to the Grand Teton
Mountains.

They are a glorious sight to
see, and the area has far less
traffic, is not as commercialized,
and has a more varied
landscape than Yellowstone.
They give classes in this.  They
start off looking so clumsy and
awkward, two people trying to do
the same thing at the the same
time while running top speed
toward the cliff.

Then the second they're
airborne, it's the most graceful
thing I've ever seen.