Saskia and Richard's RVing Adventures

Everyone has heard of Yellowstone and its regularly erupting geyser, Old Faithful. So, of course, this National Park had to be on our list of things to see as we travel the US this summer. However, I had not anticipated at all what we encountered. I knew part of the area Yellowstone covers was once a super-volcano, A huge eruption about 631,000 years ago made the center collapse, and a 30 by 45 mile caldera or basin was formed. Magma lies below as close as 3-8 miles (5-13 km) from the surface. The heat of the magma fuels the park's geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, travertine terraces, and mudpots. In fact Yellowstone boasts the world's largest group of such hydrothermal features, and incidentally there are hundreds of small earthquakes below ground annually which means these features are in a constant state of flux. I'm not intending to give you a geography lesson, you can visit the park's website to learn more about it, but I will describe to you what I...

It's been a long time since I've put fingers to keyboard and written about our travels. Somehow life just got in the way – and that's not a complaint. Our RVing adventures, as this blog is entitled, simply ground to a temporary halt. We have settled for a more sedentary lifestyle over the winters, enjoying the winter warmth of Coolidge, Arizona, and the social aspect of staying in one community. By choosing to work over the winter season and summers at Elk Pines Resort, Indian Skies RV Resort and Wagonhammer RV park in Idaho last year, our options for travel have been somewhat curtailed for the last couple of years. But this summer we are back on the road again. Our desire to see more of the USA's National Parks dictated our route. We drove westwards out of Arizona into Utah, a natural stopover as we headed northwards, and another opportunity to visit Canyonlands National Park (NP). This time we wanted to explore The Needles, in the southern part of this im...