Our first real stop on the trip was the village of Supai down in Grand Canyon (link). There has been a flood in the Supai area and many people were rescued out via helicopter.
You can read more on Associated Press (English) and Jylland Posten (Danish)
At this time it sounds like everyone is safe in Supai, but the people living in Supai and the tourists must have gotten quite a scare. We’re happy this didn’t happen while we where there.
After South Dakota we went to Iowa. Most of Iowa around I-80 actually has landscape very much like in Denmark. There are many places where I’d easily make that mistake if it wasn’t for the buildings (and a slightly warmer weather). The most striking difference is, however, the distances. In Denmark you would get some changes in the landscape after maybe 50 miles (80km) – here it was just the same for 100s of miles.
Yellowstone is known for Old Faithful, The Grand Canyon of theYellowstone (and the waterfall), its hot springs and for its wildlife. On the first day we took a drive to Mammoth Hot Springs, and hoped to at least see some Elk when we were there as that was “Elk Countryâ€. On the way up north we even passed “Bear Countryâ€, but we saw neither elk nor bears at the hot springs – only hot springs with the yummy rotten eggs smell that goes with them.