Adventures of a Discoverer

As you may have seen in my previous blog posts ( here ,  here  and  here ) a month ago I was enjoying a road trip all the way from Seattle to the Yellowstone National Park. In addition to everything I could see and enjoy there, on my way back I made one final stop for just one more attraction: the  Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park  in Montana. This state park has a curious History. The Native Americans in the region already knew of a big system of caverns in the limestone of the mountains in these area, and when settlers started arriving in Montana a particularly enterpreneurial one took ownership of the land (as it happened in those days), put some infrastructure around and in the caves and started selling tickets for tours. It became a major attraction given how beautiful the rock formations were. Long story short, eventually the caves became part of the Yellowstone National Park, but the National Park Service complained that the caverns were too far away fr...

A month ago I had the blessing of being able to go into a road trip to one of the natural jewels of the United States: the Yellowstone National Park (as you can see in  Yellowstone National Park (Part I - North)  and in  Yellowstone National Park (Part II - South)  as well). However, just south of Yellowstone there is a yet another fantastic piece of nature preserved for the generations to come: the Grand Teton National Park. This park is smaller than Yellowstone and therefore is not as chock full of attractions as its larger neighbor, but it has some beautiful vistas all of its own. It has a dramatic scenery: the park is mostly plains with lots of lakes and then, right in the middle of it you can see the impressive Teton mountain range. The highest peak is the Grand Teton, which lends its name to the national park. As I was spending time in the Yellowstone National Park, I decided to make a day trip to the Grand Teton and I really didn't regret it. As you drive thro...