Where the buffalo roam

America is a big country and many people would prefer to drive when traveling from one side to the other... but not us. We just returned from a long road trip, racking up over 3000 miles driving from Chicago to Yellowstone National Park and back again. What a ride!

It's a shock to be back in the city. The thing that struck me most about Yellowstone and particularly the area surrounding the park is that there is so much of nothing there. At some points during the trip, we found ourselves driving down roads with absolutely no signs of life outside the car windows - no other cars, no houses, not even any power lines. And I couldn't get a signal on my cell phone! If our car would have broken down, I don't know what we would have done.

From time to time, we did see animals though - and sometimes we were too close for comfort! Herds of buffalo would wander across roads, sometimes sitting obliviously on the yellow center line. They didn't pay any attention to us and we just tried to be as inconspicuous as possible - basically if you ignore them, they will ignore you.

What a different world we experienced during the road trip. It was hard to believe we were still in the same country!

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