Mount Rushmore National Memorial

At once I decided to continue to post photos from our trip at the end of March, 2014. We visited a place located in South Dakota with sculptures of  famous faces of US's presidents. There are four faces of following presidents on Mount Rushmore: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. It was a nice weather that day as you see from pics and without snow.

Yellowstone National Park: Mammoth Hot Springs

We were moving back to British Columbia from Ontario and visited on our way a few places in US. One of the interesting places that recently caught attention thousands of people is Yellowstone National Park. Although we were not so lucky with the weather, it was pretty nice to see different colorful formations.

We were there at night on March 29-30. That day in the morning it was earthquake magnitude 4.8 and we were sleeping when it happened. I read that this earthquake was the strongest one since 1980.

The pass ticket to the park costs $25.

I was surprised that many bison walk near buildings in Mammoth Country. It is supposed to be wild animal anyway and I don’t how local people deal with this.  There are also many elks and mule deer. Also we saw bighorn sheep.

In this time of year there are many parts of roads closed at the park and it is understandable. You would see the weather!  The visibility was very bad because of the snow. One of the opened ones was Hot Springs in Mammoth.

There is many discussion about this place lately because of the supervolcano located right there. Especially after some video with running animals that was posted on the internet in the middle of March.  As you can see my photos, animals go nowhere.  If you have some comments related to this topic, please feel free to leave them.

Badlands National Park, South Dakota - Part 3

Finally, I found a time to post third part of my pictures from Badlands National Park located in South Dakota.

Badlands National Park, South Dakota - Part 2

Our nature is so amazing and I am happy to have a chance to see some parts of our world and share my photos with you. As I said in my previous post, I would like to continue with Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Here you see quite unusual yellow mounts located there. There are so amazing. One more part of the pics from there is in part 3.

Badlands National Park, South Dakota - Part 1

The next state we visited when we were in USA was South Dakota. We stayed there at night in a pretty famous small american town Deadwood and visited the one of the amazing places I have ever been, the Badlands National Park. It consists from sharply eroded buttes, spires, and pinnacles. 

In next three posts  I would like to show photos from the national park. I divided the post about the park on three parts because of two reasons. First of all, I have too many photos from there :)  And,  the second reason is  some variety in the colour of  mounds. I would even say that photos in the part 2 and 3 maybe are more adorable. It would be great to hear your opinion too.

By the way, if you plan to visit the park, the ticket costs just $15. 

State of Montana, USA

The next state  where we also stayed at a hotel is Montana. The hotel is called the La Quinta Butte. It is a pretty and clean place with the continental breakfast. They have a small room for a gym; anyway, it is better than nothing. We came to the hotel late at night, about 3 a.m. of the local time and were very tired. So, for us it was pretty good.

The nature of the state is also diverse.There are some of the photos.

State of Washington, USA

In July this year, we were driving through US from Vancouver, British Columbia to London, Ontario. The trip was pretty interesting. US has a pretty diverse nature from a state to a state. First state where we were going through was Washington. In fact, we spent all day long and even more on the road before staying at a hotel located in a next state on our way. I'll show you the photos of other states in my next posts; right now it is about Washington.

We made a stop near the wild horses monument located near Vantage (you can see the photos of them here). It is the amazing view from there: the blue-blue river with a long bridge. By the way, when I got out of the car, I was surprised of so hot weather. Thanks to our conditioner in the car :) Also, there was such a blinding glare for us (if compare with Vancouver I guess :)) that when we tried to make  pictures of us we cannot to do that without sun glasses. Here are photos of the state.