OLD FAITHFUL......

  "OLD FAITHFUL"....

In the Universe of summer vacations ( or winter vacation) spots, certain desitnations rank as super!  The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls and Old Faithful, they are vacation destinations that deifne a child

-hood or even an adult-hood.  What's magical about those spots, i've discovered, is that no matter how many times you see them in a photgraph, or read about or see them on t.v., they still blow you away in real-life!

In 1870, The Washburn Expedition named Old Faithful for its nearly regular schdule of eruptions.  Temperature is about 199 degrees, and it goes off every 30-120 minutes, it lasts about 1.5 minutes.  it shoots 3700-8400 gallons of boiling water, .and an average of 145 feet into the sky... What's not to love?  Plus, yellowstone itself, the first National Park, founded in 1872.  It offers 2.2 million wilderness acres, and the largest concentration of wild mammals.  There is 370 miles of paved roads.... or as we only know it, snow covered roads. 

This is a trip we made many many times.....Pocatello Idaho.....some of our bestest friends ever lived there....we would drive to their house and all go to west yellowstone, rent snow-moblies and spend the day enjoying all God's beauty.....

AMAZING...

DEFINELTY WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM..............

MONTANA, WYOMING AND THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE....

SNOW-MOBILING IN YELLOWSTONE IS BEYOND WORDS.....

WHEN.... i remember our several trips to Yellowstone....i cant help but remember, the wolves, the moose and the buffalo,  and God's beauty....

YET.... i cant help but relate Yellowstone and espesically OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER to a freindship... a friendship that no matter what happens, good , bad, sad, death and births, health issues,laughter and tearrs, with years that pass by, and we can pick up right where we left off at!

Those FAITHFUL friends are Ron and Jodi Hepworth.  (and their kids and grandkids).  love,love,love them!

this says it all...... whether its OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER or  FAITHFUL FRIENDS!

With HIS AMAZING GRACE.....God continues to bless and love His faithful people!