I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 659. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Basalt Columns

Outlaw Hideouts, unpronounceable state parks, and incomparable national parks as we go to the state of Wyoming.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Wyoming. I'd like to welcome to the show Jennifer Melroy from National Park Obsessed.com

who has come to talk to us about Wyoming. Jennifer welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm Happy to be here again.

Yes, I was going to say, well welcome back.

Jennifer and I actually recorded this episode once before in totality and the file disappeared.

I've never had that happen before.

I'm sure it was my fault, but I don't know what's going.

So I appreciate your patience in coming back and talking about Wyoming,

a state that my Colorado cousins once described as a cake with all the frosting

mushed up to one corner and that being the Grand Teton's and Yellowstone

we're not going to talk as much about that corner because we have on the show before, but we're going to talk about the great big rest of the state.

Because you think we shouldn't avoid it or ignore it.

We really shouldn't, but everybody seems to like that corner for some reasons, not like they have a good percentage of the wildlife geysers and mountains.

Yes, I think the stats are that Yellowstone has more than half of the Geysers in the world,

so it is a pretty spectacular corner.

But you're going to start us where instead.

What itinerary are you going to recommend for us?

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