Obsidian Mountains      by Hana Christy Steinberg    acrylic paint on canvas 24"x36"

We finally made it to Yellowstone National Park.  I took about 1000 pictures.
It was spectacular.
We arrived the first day the camp ground was opened for the spring season.  Several trails were still
closed because they were still covered with snow.  Yellowstone Lake was covered with a thin sheet of ice when we
got there, ice with steam vents at the shore. The lake was halfway melted by the time we headed south.
Magical sulfuric steam everywhere.
No fast food restaurants, no strip malls.  Keep the cooler loaded, the picnic life.
Humans outnumbered by animals.
Day trip to the northern area of the park,  Mammoth Hot Springs.
Steam escaping leaving mineral deposits of all colors, creating a crisp thin stone bed of travertine.
Mountains of obsidian rock giving new meaning to a few pieces of jewelry I have somewhere....
the ground hot beneath your boots..
and the weather was perfect.
Hana Christy Steinberg

Yellowstone & Bust! day one......

Day one.  Road trip.  Kansas City to Yellowstone Park.   

Who knew our first day on the road would be a bust...literally?

The temperatures were in the low 90's, BAM! blowout around 5:00pm.

Exit ramp, rip roarin wind, construction zone.....orange triangles....

changed the tire...

We made it to Henderson, Nebraska  (where?), overnight at the Prairie Oasis.  

next morning (Sunday, to boot) truck service center.  

We decided on all new tires (internal damage they say) because this blow out stuff is depressing....

Will we ever make it out of Nebraska?

"I-80 Blow Out"       mixed media by Hana Christy Steinberg