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As soon as we were up and moving, we put on our hiking faces and headed to the visitor’s center in Madison to see when the rangers were predicting the main geyser eruptions for the day. The first on the list was Daisy Geyser, which involved a one-mile hike to the location itself, plus thirty minutes or so on either side of the 11 AM time listed. When we arrived at the parking area, Barry looked at the area, looked at the trail map posted at the trailhead, and decided he had no desire to walk for a mile “to see nothing”.

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For the first time on the trip, Barry woke up in the morning mentioning that he was cold a lot last night, despite the fact that we were under the same number of blankets we had been all trip and that he was wearing long underwear. I had mentioned to him previously that we really wanted to get warmer blankets, because it’s only going to get colder, but Barry being a boy, or Barry being Barry, didn’t want to spent the extra money on the fleece sleeping bags I saw in an Evilmart (a.k.a. Wal-Mart) a few towns back. [Yes, I’m cheap. —Barry]

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With practically the entire contents of our car (including our kayaks!) in the hotel room, we woke up on our usual timeline in a cozy bed. Barry made us breakfast in the room while I did some typing for the blog. We were hopeful that Billings would be a successful place for us to find information about climbing and paddling in Wyoming (or anywhere “en route” even though our route is really dictated by the water and rocks available to us).

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As promised, we have added photos to the posts through August 3. I have also figured out how to post a batch of photos so will be uploading all photos, viewable by day, soon.

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For those who do not already know this: If you click on any of the small “thumbnail” images in any posting, a larger (640 pixel wide) version of the image will appear. We also have 6 megapixel versions of all these images, of course, but they take too long to upload. :-)

We’ve taken over 3,000 images so far. We’ll post most/all of them here eventually, organized so that you can look at them by day and possibly by other criteria.

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Hi all. When you log in to this site, you will now see a section in the left sidebar called “What’s New”. It will list all posts that you haven’t read at all or that has a new comment.

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Two items:

First, we do not seem to be getting a whole lot of comments or feedback about our posts! C’mon, folks, it takes a lot of time and effort to keep you informed of what we’re doing. Get involved! Ask some questions! Tell us what you want to hear about. Make us feel appreciated. :-)

Second, because Heather is such a write-a-holic and picture-taking-a-holic, we had a bunch to post today and do not have time to add the pictures for 7/30 through 8/03 just yet. We’ll add them later along with details about our continuing adventures (e.g. in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National

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The closest star in the sky beat down on us as our morning call with its warm beams of radiant heat. Still feeling stuffy headed and kind of sickly, I snuggled up to Barry in hopes of being able to drift back off to sleep, but the NyQuil had warn off by now and I was doomed to another day of grogginess and feeling not so up to par. :(

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It seems like every time we’re in a city, we make a big shopping run. After vacating the hotel (and getting a free granola bar to eat and a brochure for the scrap book), we went to (a) a drug store (for more tissues [my poor nose!], DayQuil, and some other sicky-related items), (b) the local camera store for a lens cap that will fit my zoom lens when it has the step-up ring attached {Note to self: Y’ know, it would be really nice to STOP spending money on my camera by having someone tell me everything that I’ll need given the purchases I am making.}, and (c) a hair salon for Barry, who needed short hair before we went any further on our trip.

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My nose was stuffy and my throat itchy when I woke up again today. I hope that whatever bug I have has reached it peak, as today we begin the second leg of our adventure trip, and I would hate for the mucus in my head to delay our hiking, climbing, and paddling.