{"id":1234,"date":"2012-09-25T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T00:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:09:33","slug":"september-25-from-yellowstone-to-buffalo-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/25\/september-25-from-yellowstone-to-buffalo-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"September 25: From Yellowstone to Buffalo Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bison-Herd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bison-Herd.png\" alt=\"Bison Herd\" title=\"Bison Herd\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bison-Herd.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bison-Herd-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bison Herd in Hayden Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 10,066 &#8211; Cody, Wyoming.<\/strong>\u00a0 Until now we&#8217;ve had fabulous luck with weather, but the last three days in Yellowstone our luck ran out.\u00a0 Today started with rain and smoke, then some sun and clouds, and later more rain.\u00a0 Once we left Yellowstone, skies cleared on our way to Cody, which is in Yellowstone&#8217;s rainshadow.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the weather, we spent most of the day in visitor centers, but we also spent time at Hayden\u00a0Valley\u00a0where the buffalo roam.\u00a0 One of the highlights was a bison\u00a0standing in the middle of the road, blocking traffic.\u00a0 After a while he decided asphalt is not very nutritious, and people staring at him from those funny glass and metal boxes was annoying, and he moved on.<\/p>\n<p>I want to come back to Yellowstone in the future as a destination and plan it better, and also hope for better weather.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1263\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Errant-Bison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Errant-Bison.png\" alt=\"Bison at Side of Road\" title=\"Errant Bison\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Errant-Bison.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Errant-Bison-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bison After Blocking Traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1262\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dragons-Mouth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dragons-Mouth.png\" alt=\"Dragon&#039;s Mouth Geyser\" title=\"Dragon&#039;s Mouth\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dragons-Mouth.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dragons-Mouth-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dragon&#8217;s Mouth Geyser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Artists-Point.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Artists-Point.png\" alt=\"Yellowstone Lower Falls from Artist&#039;s Point\" title=\"Artist&#039;s Point\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Artists-Point.png 300w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Artists-Point-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellowstone Lower Falls from Artist&#8217;s Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1264\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wyoming-Ranch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wyoming-Ranch.png\" alt=\"Wyoming Ranch\" title=\"Wyoming Ranch\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wyoming-Ranch.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wyoming-Ranch-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wyoming Ranch Near Buffalo Bill Reservoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 10,066 &#8211; Cody, Wyoming.\u00a0 Until now we&#8217;ve had fabulous luck with weather, but the last three days in Yellowstone our luck ran out.\u00a0 Today started with rain and smoke, then some sun and clouds, and later more rain.\u00a0 Once we left Yellowstone, skies cleared on our way to Cody, which is in Yellowstone&#8217;s rainshadow. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/25\/september-25-from-yellowstone-to-buffalo-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 25: From Yellowstone to Buffalo Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}