Hi all I thought I'd catch you up on where we actually got to on our trip... We spent a day being jetlagged in san Francisco - basically trying to stay awake :-) Then drove to Yosemite to see the trees - very big, very cool. Stayed in a TENT - freezing! and heard them scaring away b ears in the carpark - woke up in fright in the night Went on to Ely Navada over the taiaga pass - very high, snow, great views. Stayed in Ely - Nice folks at the SubWay where we had breakfast, but horrible coffee - got into unintentional argument with the nice girl and her boss about how espresso coffee isn't supposeed to be a huge cup of milky coffee - ho humm... Went to great basin national park - cute, saw dear, cave, really old bristlecone pines - got gently snowed on which was fun Went to Utah - stayed in Payston, nice food from the charming one man band diner, and then good breakfast recommended by hotel receptionist because we overslept for the free breaky. Did more utah than we meant to because we took ar wrong turn at Everston, so ended up in Logan, rather than at the monument we meant to go to Drove to Teton and Yellowstone, saw more elk antlers than is really good for someone, and stayed in historic hotel .because there wasn't anywhere else - oh and saw old faithful blow Got up early, saw bison, saw Elk, saw lots and lots more bison, saw a black bear and her 2 cubs, and yet more bison.... Drove to Billings montana, over beartooth pass/mountains Stayedin billings, and went to find pictographs today but couldn't find them, so basically walked about in the desert which was fun And tommorrow we fly to pitsburgh for a week. Cheers R -- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager, Katipo Communications PO Box 12487, Wellington, New Zealand Phone +64-21-389 128, or +64-4-934 1285 Fax +64-4-934 1286 Web www.katipo.co.nz