Day 10: Yellowstone Geysers

Another crappy morning with gray clouds and misty rain. Oh, and a high of 45 degrees.

As everyone knows, the biggest attraction here is Old Faithful. This is reinforced by the fact that the Old Faithful Village is the only place I can get cell service and/or Wi-Fi. Since it erupts every 90 minutes, it is certainly a convenient attraction for most tourists.

BUT, if you want to see an impressive, yet less cooperative geyser, I would suggest the Grand Geyser, located a 5-minute walk away. It only erupts every 8-10 hours, but is significantly less predictable. As we walked by today, the prediction was for the geyser to erupt between 7:45am and 10:45am (the current time was 11am). Several people had been waiting there for about 2 hours. We hung around for another half hour before deciding to walk further down the path and check out some other stuff. Not 5 minutes later, we turned around and saw the eruption:

Fortunately, the eruption lasts for nearly 10 minutes, so we had enough time to go back and experience it up close. Pictures CANNOT do it justice, but here is my attempt to do so: