Cheese cave, inventoried

We added a new cheese to our cheese cave this week, a 3-year-aged, vintage white cheddar from Tillamook, in honor of their 100th anniversary. It’s a two pounder, which is pretty commensurate with our homemade cheeses, so I decided to…

Off to my brother’s wedding

Stephanie and I are heading to San Antonio for Matthew and Beth’s wedding on Saturday. Update: this is how we carried our “luggage” from work in San Francisco to the airport in Oakland.

Rehearsaling

We got to my parent’s house in Austin around 2 in the morning last night. Woke up at 10 (we’re still on pacific time, natch) and repacked for the trip down to San Antonio. Dropped things off at Beth’s parent’s…

Matthew and Beth got married!

As the sun was setting on the Texas Hill Country last Saturday, my brother Matthew and his lovely fiance Beth were married.

Off to Wyoming

On Sunday, as everyone who’d come into town for my brother’s wedding was heading home, Stephanie and I caught a flight to Salt Lake City. Before the plane made its scheduled stop in Denver, we had to circle the airport…

Settling into Grand Teton National Park

As soon as we got our bearings in Grand Teton National Park, we called to see if we could reserve a tent cabin in Colter Bay Village for Monday night. They had availability, which meant: we were staying in Grand…

Hiking Cascade Canyon

It might have been those tent cabin cots, or the morning cold, or our full bladders, but we woke up early on Tuesday eager to get out into the park. We decided to start at the Leigh and String Lakes…

West Thumb Geyser Basin

Wednesday morning we left our tent cabin in Grand Teton and headed north into Yellowstone National Park. We didn’t know what route we were going to take through the park. We didn’t know where we were going to spend the…

Old Faithful

After visiting the geysers at West Thumb we drove in the direction of Old Faithful. We got there about 15 minutes before the next scheduled eruption, which usually happens every 90-120 minutes. I don’t know what was more exciting, the…

Beyond Old Faithful

After seeing the satellite images showing Old Faithful surrounded by a semi-circle of parking lots, I was a little concerned that it was going to be one big tourist circus. But once I got there, I realized that Old Faithful…

The Grand Prismatic Spring

This was probably one of my favorite stops as we were driving through Yellowstone, because it was so immersive and wet. The spring’s runoff into Firehole River Interesting hair-like formations Orange rim of the Grand Prismatic Spring A lava-like orange…

Yellowstone Wildlife

If you can believe it, the last four posts, West Thumb Geyser Basin, Old Faithful, Beyond Old Faithful, and The Grand Prismatic Spring, as well as this one, all took place within a single day, Wednesday, June 17th, of our…

Mammoth Hot Springs

We woke up on Thursday morning, June 18th, in Mammoth Hot Springs, at the very northern entrance of Yellowstone. Before beginning the long drive towards Glacier National Park, we took our time exploring the springs. The cloudy skies lent a…