Piddle, Puddle, Traffic Jam: Yellow Stone National Park, Mt Rushmore, and other Vacation Destinations in the Rain: Not Another Travel Guide - High Octane

By Bob Campbell

Detailed stops include Yellow Stone National Park and the venerable Old Faithful, but more importantly, the onslaught of buffalo poop - I mean, open and active geologic activity resulting in acts of nature right before your eyes in blazing color.
A pause at Custer's Last Stand at Little Bighorn with a reflection on my past and the incorporated present that's available to future generations.
Harley's, Hogs, and no hotels with a tour of Mt. Rushmore to visit Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt before dropping below the surface to experience Jewel Cave and caverns in South Dakota prior to our transition to Wyoming for a little surprise visit by a bear.
Rest stops in Idaho, Montana, and everywhere in between.
All this while battling to stay dry while Mother Nature has a good laugh at our expense in this trip to get away from the rain which brings showers and sprinkles to our path to tinkle across the upper interior western states of North America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Campbell
• Release date: May 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310328855

Bob Campbell

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

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