Yellowstone. Definition: A physical location in Wyoming marked as a National Park totaling close to 2.2 million acres of pure death. You can die a number of horrible deaths including, but not limited to: boiling to death in a geo thermal feature, bear attacks, mountain lion mauling, pack of wolves feasting on your carcass, coyotes if you’re a giant sissy mary, and now featuring escaped convicts who really only want your wheels and the time that will elapse until your body is found. These dudes left the car they killed 2 people for in the same parking lot where I park my car, about 200 yds from where I sleep. That’s nice. Warm fuzzies. Unreal. Now when I go hiking I have to be bear aware, and weary of a white supremacist in the bush who can only lose 2 things: his life and his new found freedom. The authorities are under the impression these 2 things are not mutually exclusive to the familial lovers. I assume he and his lady are nowhere near here anymore, but who knows. There is a lot more ranger presence around OF, and the word is that this place is crawling with US Marshals. Must be undercover. Im a little disappointed that the authorities aren’t warning the public more… well… at all. There are wanted posters all over the employee areas, but I haven’t seen 1 in any of the public areas. I understand the idea of not causing a panic, but explain that to the family of someone who gets killed here for their car/food/money when a wanted poster at a campsite could have prevented anything from happening. Descending from soap box… The odds are against Bonnie and Clyde here, most fugitives don’t last very long on the run in the grand scheme of prison breaks.
And those bear attacks in Cooke City? That made national news too. Apparently the mother bear was very thin for her size and her 3 cubs were each 40-50 lbs underweight. The rangers now think that the mother was super desperate to feed her cubs and that’s why she attacked those campers despite the fact there was no food in their entire site. The rangers already euthanized at least the mother and plan to do the same to the cubs when they are found. I haven’t heard anything in about a week, so they might have already found them, not sure. Also, do not google image 'bear attack', some of the pics are a little too gnarly.
This weekend has been very relaxing, worked out, went on a 10 mile bike ride on a bike path about 10 miles from OF near grand prismatic today, got dinner in West Yellowstone last night, just keeping it local and cheap in preparation for my trip to STL in 2 weeks!!!!!
Also, thank you Celeste for your note. I just got it today. It means a lot that you think of me. I think of you often, I will call you soon. I love you very much.
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