Bison and eagles and bears...oh my.

After three days on amazingly straight roads we arrived at Yellowstone. As we looked at the GPS it was one straight ribbon until we turned left in Nevada and headed for Idaho. A more boring road couldn't of been had.
We had a great Cinco de Mayo dinner in Idaho Falls and won the raffle. Unfortunately our car is packed to the gills, we had to buy groceries and had no room. So we gave our basket of goodies to the table next to us.
We are hear in our little apartment that is great about 800 square feet. Two bedrooms and the most amazing view. It is exactly one minute from the clinic.
We had a welcome dinner and have started orientation on Tuesday. I think my head my explode. On Tuesday night we had a helicopter orientation and I won a helicopter ride around the Lake. It's too bad that they don't have the lottery here; I am on a roll.
We had to make a mad dash to Cody, Wyoming to buy more groceries. It's an hour and a half each way. A beautiful drive and Cody is very nice. They have a brand new library which is amazing. They charge 15-25 dollars for a library card for us "out of towners." We said that we'd think about it.

Eilen has seen two grizzlies. I have seen one. There is Bison poop everywhere. Where there is poop there is Bison. It is pitch black at night and apparently there is one that likes to sleep outside of the clinic. Haven't "run " in to him yet. Guess I'll buy more flashlight on our next run to Cody...

The over/under on...packing

Greetings from Winnemucca, Nevada, one third of the way to Yellowstone National Park. Me and E or E and I or e,i,e,i,o...are off on adventure #2. I am going to work at the Lake Yellowstone clinic and E will look at wolfs and bison and bears and oh my. We packed the car yesterday within an inch of its life and headed to Manteca We went to see Mum and Dad where Dad informed us that there should be a doctor at the clinic "not just you." Ah with support like that, how could I go wrong. Thanks dad.
We stoppes at Cabellas, just outside of Reno which is an amazing hunting/camping/fishing store complete with huge aquarium and stuffed dead things. We went to by bear spray which I tried on the stuffed bear there and seemed to work pretty well. Stopped him in dead his tracks. Actually I think that his still in that same position. This stuff works great!
The car has Sirius satellite radio which is great beause there are two sations here. One is "Godtalk" and the other is country. Which is two more than in Yellowstone. We listened to "Willie's Roadhouse" hoping to hear "on the road again."
Traditional bad joke-Why did Willie Nelson get hit by a car?
He was playing on the road again...  {groan}

Packing pre-adventure

I have been asked to continue this...whatever this is...for Yellowstone. So here goes. We leave Friday for the 1000 mile drive in the new car. What was it the Chinese say about a journey of a thousand miles? It begins with...a trip to Uhaul for boxes.
I'm thinking that the rocket attack part of the blog will be missing. I'm hoping that it will not be replaced with the bear attack alarm, but one never knows. The living room is full of boxes, some half packed. I am sure two things will happen:
1. We will send back stuff that we didn't need.
2. We sill say," damn we should of brought ..."
But there is Cody, Wyoming just a mere 85 miles away to buy stuff we need. The speed limit in the Park is 45mph. You do the math.