442: The Bratwurstindianer on tour to Yellowstone and Grand Teton

We had the pleasure of spending a couple of days in the oldest national park of the United States. And being there you immediately understand why this place needs to be protected. Bison, Elk, Moose, Wolf, Bear and many more animals are roaming this place free with minimal contact to human and it's one of the last places you can experience them in their natural habitat - just for that it is AMAZING. The thing is though, that if you go, you will most likely not see all of the animals, but that isn't too bad, because besides the animals, the wast grasslands, broad rivers, geysers, woods and mountains are worth a visit by themselves.

So we made the trip, it took us 3 days to get there. So I will start with our journey to the magnificent Grand Teton. We started off packed with tents and a Jucy van and headed to our first camp night at Rye Patch Recreational Park in Nevada. Most of your surrounding looks already like desert, but along the river you have trees and wildlife and among all this a nice campground. Camping on the river can have it's challenges and the humongous frogs kept us up all night.

View onto camping area.

Fire and hammock, what else do you need for a perfect vacation start.

Jucy.

Camp site view in the evening.

After an OK night, we drove on to Utah with a stop in Elko for the Californian Trail Interpretive Center. It is crazy what some people went through to get to the West Coast and it makes you appreciate all the modern ways of traveling.

Seeing the Elephant.

Californian Trail Interpretive Center.

Worlds largest Mimosa - seen and finished in Elko.

I had looked up a campground which was, as I thought, near Salt Lake City. As it turned out to reach the campsite we had to drive another 1.5 h after passing SLC. Which is still close to Salt Lake City if you are looking from San Mateo, but after a couple of hours driving, this last hour feels painfully long. Anyhow, we made it to the most windy and desolate campground ever on Antelope Island State Park. Besides us only one other RV was visible. Because of the wind, that night we made no camp fire. We pinched our tents, which luckily did not fly away and had melon and chips for dinner. Beside the wind the campground was beautiful, we had an amazing sunset, moonset and sunrise and heard coyotes in the night.