DAY 13

Madison to Mammoth

Highlights of yet another perfect day in Yellowstone: Gibbon Falls, lower fountain paint pots (pretty much one of each: multi-coloured pool, bubbling mud bath, mineral river of colour and texture, sky blue hole in the ground), more bison, Norris Geyser Basin (awesome, as it was much more open in a white lava-like expanse between sights making for great backdrops of white fields and dead, whitened trees, highlights Porkchop Geyser, Pearl Geyser, and Echinus (Google each), before probably the most scenic and all-round pleasant stretch of road in Yellowstone past old-growth forest, twin lakes, Obsidian Cliff, Golden Gate (cliffs with gold lichen growing on them) and bizarre bouldered landslide areas - incredible riding.

Oh did we mention the hot springs we bathed in (we reek)(Luke wrote this, obviously forgetting that ladies don't reek, although I had 'perspired a little' bit over the lat few days), where the freezing river meets a geothermal boiling hot one and you can soak your weary, happy bodies. As good as it gets.