We're on Antelope Island which is a place... to... the North of Salt Lake City
I'm gonna start this again, it was horrible!
We're like little girls right now! We have arrived to Antelope Island,
which is an island North of Salt Lake City
- And there are antelopes!
There are antelopes, of course!
Lots of buffalos, well buffalos or bisons... I don't really know the difference.
And it seems there are some very cute birds! Because we're here at the visitor center
and I mean, please!
- Isn't it your favorite bird?
Let's zoom in!
- Isn't number 1 your favorite bird?
- Please... It's so much fun!
It's like a mix of a penguin and a pigeon.
- It's the best!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
... Bisons!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
Let's go!
We just arrived to Spiral Jetty, which is a sculpture from the 70's
which is made out of more than 5000 tons of basalt rock.
- And it's in the middle of nowhere...
Absolutely nowhere!
- We drove for two hours, one of them on a dirt road...
To basically get here. The good thing is that on the way we've encounter a bunch of wild horses!
- Well... wild? Yes they were wild.
Yes, they were wild!
- Super beautiful, honestly.
Yeah!
- And there was a little horse...
Yeees! There was a baby horse, and a very pregnant horse!
- What's it called? Foal!
A foal, yes!
OMG look how cool! Let's go down!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
We're here!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
Get in, Carolina!
- I don't want to get my hair wet
We just arrived to Soda Springs, Idaho
and we just came at the moment when the where the geyser.. explodes?
- Erupts
Erupts? I don't really know what a geyser does...
Well this is super beautiful and also there's a lot of kids going crazy!
- They're hysterical!
They're hysterical, they love water! - It's because of the sulfide.
- It's because of the sulfide.
Yeah, it could be! The water smells pretty weird...
- It smells like a rotten eggs... But well, it's very cool!
Yes - I mean the floor and everything is cool, everything is awesome!
The floor is beautiful, we were so lucky...
- Yeah, totally.
- We're hungry.
We're really hungry.
Touch this...
- It's super weird
Yeah
- It's like plastic...
I don't really know. They're probably minerals embedded there, right?
- Yeah, look.
I like the waves it makes, the grains...
- Wow it's so cool!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
- Perfect, perfect!
Are you aware we have done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 states in 7 days?
It's insane! Oh my...
- I don't know where...
Well and also, very important!
It turns out Idaho and Wyoming are super-ultra-mega green. We come from the desert, okay?
- Sorry!
Thank you, phone.
We come from...
We come from the desert-
- I'm sorry!
Okay, next try: we come from an absolute desert because...
Utah was pretty hot, actually.
- Utah was DEATH
Utah was very hot, and suddenly
we arrived to Idaho, Wyoming and everything is green like...
Swiss Alps, you know? A lot of pines and...
- A bit like Asturias! It's important to say that we don't have air conditioning, okay?
I know, that's something the world needs to know!
This car has no air conditioning
so when it's hot, it's REALLY hot.
So HOT... Hot. We actually melt.
And well, we arrived to Idaho and we decided Idaho is like Asturias
and we just passed to Wyoming, and for now Wyoming...
- It's still Asturias!
Breaking news: Wyoming is Asturias!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
We're on our way to Yellowstone National Park,
and we stopped at a town that's right before called Jackson
and we are horrified by the amount of things related to hunting...
We have just found a store full of stuffed animals in terrible positions
Let's go a second to look at this... atrocity,
that stuffed bear...
and this Christmas tree made out of deer antler
where the lights are bullet shells...
I mean... You have to have real bad taste to choose this.
- Bullet shells... What?
- WHAT?
- What a horrifying place...
- Please I'm going to die of sadness
- but at the same time it's funny!
It's not funny. No, no, no, this is horrible.
- Oh God...
These are racoons playing cards
- Do you think this is real?
I'm pretty sure it's real
and it makes me so sad...
- I'm so sorry, bear.
And there are antlers everywhere in town!
I mean there are like doors made of antlers, like...
lamps made of antlers, this makes no sense.
And... well, a horror.
We're thinking of staying here to spend the night
and tomorrow morning waking up super early, like at 5am
to enter Yellowstone since there's always like...
- Queue!
A queue, yes. Well apparently it's very complicated to get in
so we have to be there at 6 sharp.
6am
- You can't imagine how crazy this place is, it's like...
I feel like a city girl...?
- Yes, yes!
It's like, everybody has a gun and there are deer antlers everywhere.
Seriously! - And earrings...
- And earrings...
Deer earrings, yes! - Everything, everything!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
Okay, update! I'm happy because...
it turns out all of these deer antlers, well, better said elk antlers
are actually not from dead elks, elks that have been killed.
It seems that elks change their horns?!
- Every Spring! Every Spring they change their horns
- so they pick them up and do all this things. So it's like...
- Okay, thank goodness!
Or perhaps we're super naive, and this is fake. We just read it from a placard but actually
it's like a justification that they've killed so many elks!
We take it... I take it.
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
Sometimes I've this feeling in the US that... Let's see how can I explain it.
Like if someone that went to Europe and came back told what they saw to a third person
and then this other person has builded things.
For example an Italian restaurant:
A person goes to Italy, eats pasta, eats pizza, returns here
and tells someone what's a pizza an this person makes it!
And it looks like pizza, it has the shape of a pizza
but you taste it and it doesn't taste like pizza!
It's what I feel with this kind of towns. It's like someone went to Switzerland
and told another person about how Switzerland is, and says:
"There are buildings made of wood, pines... And everything has a winterly bohemian environment."
Right? And then someone builds up this city, but you can feel I don't know, that's not pure!
I don't know.
Look how cool is this picture!
♫ Mariuk - Simon ♫
Okay we're super tired because we've been travelling all day, basically.
So our plan is... we don't even want to cook dinner.
Our plan is to take the bread we just bought, lots of cheese.
Go to the public bathrooms that we have here at the back to look for...
Plugs!
To charge our phones
- And also take our travel journals and make some collages and shit...
And that's our plan for tonight, right now is around 7pm
- 8pm, it's already 8
It's 8pm already? God!
And well, we will go to sleep very early because tomorrow we have to wake up ULTRA-MEGA-EARLY
to be able to enter Yellowstone. Ultra-mega-early means 5 in the morning.
- She's driving, because in the morning I'm not...
Carolina doesn't react in the morning!
- I'm not very good at it...
She is going to be sleeping while I'm driving!
And we have to put gas... Because we have no gas.
- God, we're like grandmothers right now!
Totally, totally!
In the next chapter...
Because... F*ck there's a bison on the road, wait!
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