inside the wonderful world of vee

three hours into the drive……………….. or something like that. we tried to scrape off one side of the car and leave the other one covered with bugs, but at some point the number of bugs per side maxed out… it was like they were bumping off the old ones or something. :[ darn. was hoping it’d be like a pancake of bug. haha. yes. those are bugs. not dirt.

driving through small highways in oregon yields awesome fucking things. this hurr is just some quarry or something of some kind. it gets better. there was an ABANDONED factory… and one of the coolest abandoned houses i’ve EVER seen. i was trying to find a way off the freeway to get to the abandoned factory but could not. the abandoned house was like, made of rock, falling apart, and definitely old time. it was the only house for what musta been… 20 miles? and it was literally right next to the freeway. dunno what it was doing there, but it was DOPE.

these were all over the freaking place. guess a lotta people die due to drunk-driving.

good ol’ snake river.

in boise, met up with spastik and we went to eat pizzarrr! boise is a quaint little place. very nicely laid out (very straight blocks… none of that confusing windy shit… i guess maybe cause it’s kinda small/new?)

that evening we caught the last bit of fireworks in west yellowstone. it’s really cool there because there’s a lot of open sky and all of the houses are really low to the ground, so you can pretty much see the fireworks from ANYWHERE. we just pulled into some random neighborhood street and saw a bunch of gloriousness.

saturday, july 5th, 2008.

map of inside yellowstone!

once inside yellowstone (shit, i almost wrote yosemite), the first pool of warm water we saw! on the way from madison to norris.

this guy was just chillin by the side of the road. he was totally walking on the shoulder, too, making sure to not walk in the road. crazy!

moooooo. on the way from norris to canyon, i believe. we got pretty lucky as far as seeing animals goes.

moooooo x 3.

i told him to pose like that. really, i did.

hi cuddly wuddlyyyyy!

“the grand canyon of yellowstone” in… canyon.

x2.

whooaa trippeehhh!

random indian lady, walking amongst the grasses and chatting with them, on the way to roosevelt from canyon.

penis rock at mammoth hot springs. actually, it looks like it has a face. DOESN’T IT?!!!

mammoth hot springs used to be beautiful? now it’s… dead?

a small pocket of life in mammoth hot springs. literally, life. the hot springs breed warm waters that harbor bacterias.

more shady stuff. :[

sooo dead…

mooo teddy bear!!!! whenever bears appeared, rangers would come out of nowhere, like they always knew where the bears were. do they have tracking devices on the bears?!! do they?!!!

a big tanmona (or in this case, wyoming) open sky. on the way from canyon to fishing bridge.

horsey ridings! unfortunately, we couldn’t take the camera ON the actual horse. fortunately, there wasn’t that much to take a picture of anyways. we were in the “canyon” section of yellowstone so i figured we’d be walking along the canyon with our horses. no. we didn’t. the most canyon we saw was when they’re like, “see that little ledge in the distance? that’s the upper falls! yay!” WTF. i feelz gipped.

by the way, the way horses poop is UNREAL. basically it opens up… like… a black void of doom or something… and the poop, which is like, our poop but all stacked up on each other like a stack of bullets or something, comes tumbling out… and then the black void of doom closes back up… aaah!!!

a sea of dead trees. it looked sweet. from canyon to roosevelt.

an acute wall. lol.

at sunset at the painted pots, the mosquitos nearly ate us alive. nearly. it was terrible. after not showering for two days, they liked us even moreso. (we will rub oil on our torsoes.) to be honest, it could have been worse, though. from madison junction to old faithful.

went a bit overkill with these photos. it was so damn pretty, though. and they used to be prettier! they’re all dried up now, too.

smoke attackkkkk!!!

what’d i say? overkill.

check out the mini moon — upper left hand corner!!

more mini moon… i lubs mini moon.

that evening we slept in the car. i failed to bring a sleeping bag on this trip (which was perhaps the most idiotic thing ever). it was FREEEEEZIIIIING.

sunday, july 6th, 2008.

old faithful. zzzz. i don’t see what’s the big deal. okay, it’s a little cool, but not cool enough that like, the whole park is built around old faithful. i mean literally. the old faithful area is a little fucking TOWN. there’s like a freeway overpass. shops. hotels. wtf.

sweet sweet custom bike outside of the gift chop.

ennis. we ate hurr.

water tower of ennis.

virginia city!

gas pump detail

old train tracks in nevada city. i lubs ghost towns. nearly ran out of gas on the way here. lulul.

these are totally slightly overexposed, btw.

mmm i like old shit. literally. this thing on the right? port-o-potty. minus the portable part.

the new meets the old.

they lubs fourth of july here.

nearly the first bit of greenery, tbh.

a nice, relatively rich guy’s house in virginia city.

a room full of different coin-operated machines, mostly of the musical variety. this huge thing right here was traded from france during ww2? maybe? in exchange for FOOD. LOL.

yummy or gross? imma tell you now — pretty gross.

mini moon again, but now, in spokane.

more later maybe.