No matter how carefully I plan our trips, including my truly minor minutia, Mother Nature can still through me a curve with a wild fire as in the one we experienced East of Yellowstone. We saw smoke in the distance for at least an hour before we were warned via sign/emergency radio station about what was happening. It ruined a section of our trip as we had to rush through a truly beautiful stretch of the Shoshone River Canyon. We couldn’t stop to savor the beauty; we were rushing to preclude the firefighters closing our only way into Yellowstone. Sometimes these wildfires go on for days and burn thousands of acres of forests and grasslands. It could have ruined our whole stay at Yellowstone. It sure made me cross and irritable, but it was hard to complain about it when we came upon a small segment of the fire and watched the brave and tired firefighters doing their best to control and vanquish the blaze.
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