This is a transcript of an episode of the Amateur Traveler focusing on traveling to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

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Today the Amateur Traveler talks about geysers and bison and the majestic beauty of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park.

Erik: Thanks for having me back Chris.

Chris: And I say welcome back to the show, for those of you who haven’t listened that long, Erik came on earlier because he has a quest to visit all of the US National Parks and so he is a great lover of the National Parks as am I. How we doing on the quest, first of all?

Erik: Well, I’m limiting the quest for right now to the lower 48 and I’ve got about 340 parks on the list and I visited 243 of those so far.

Chris: And when we talked last time, we said that we would have him come back on and go into detail about some of the other parks and Yellowstone seemed like a really good one. For one thing, the oldest National Park in the US.

Erik: In the world.

Chris: In the world. Well, I hadn’t thought about that but I suppose that’s true. Ok, why else should we talk about Yellowstone National Park? I won’t steal your thunder here.

Erik: Well, it’s a great summer destination. I have a few friends who are preparing to visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton this summer. Coming from Michigan where I’m at it’s a perfect trip to the west. You get your mountain scenery and you can stop and visit places along the way. Like the Black Hills is about a one-day drive from Yellowstone so you stop there and then you hop into your good mountain scenery with all the unique features that Yellowstone has to offer.

Chris: Well, we also have done it as a driving trip from California when I was a kid. It is accessible via a car trip without spending too much time in it unless you’re very far away.

Erik: It’s a long way from anywhere. It’s a long way from California, a long way from Michigan, a long way from the East Coast. But that’s part of the fun about the drive out, is you know you’re not at home anymore.

Chris: Well and when you’re driving through portions of Wyoming, it feels like a particularly long way. My cousins in Colorado, I think we’ve mentioned, have talked about Wyoming as a state that’s kind of like a cake with all the frosting pushed up into one corner and that would be Yellowstone and also Grand Teton. We should mention the other beautiful area just south of there.

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