<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/11/2005 10:40:10 PM Mountain Standard Time, email.sheri@verizon.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial> <DIV><FONT face=Papyrus>Scott -- How is it driving 'tour van'?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Papyrus>Do you enjoy it...? </FONT><FONT face=Papyrus>Are you able to share your wonderful knowledge of geysers with the customers? ...  </FONT><FONT face=Papyrus>Who are your 'typical' tourists?   elder?  entire families?  first timers?</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I shall answer to all, which I suppose I should have done some time ago, given the number of people who have asked me while in the park...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am driving anything from one to four days per week, for Yellowstone Tour Guides. I drive only (so far) the Lower Loop tour, which itself takes about 8 hours. Of course I share geyser information, but it is easy enough to sense that some people care a whole lot more than others. Which also controls just where we stop and for how long. And the geyser basins are not more than half (sometimes not more than a third) of the day. Often we drive the loop counterclockwise and have about 1 1/2 hours at Old Faithful for the geyser, for shopping and for lunch; but if driving clockwise around the loop, lunch is at Lake and there's as little as one hour at OF. Whickever, we also do the lake, Hayden Valley, and the canyon along with however many wildlife photo-op stops -- from West back to West is 126 miles.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It actually isn't all that easy -- you have to be attentive to the people and alert to the surroundings at all times.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>There is no typical tourist except that with few of the people have been to Yellowstone before. There is no typical tourist. I've had families with little kids, grandparents with grandkids, a Mexican wildlife biologist, two guys from Peoples Republic of China, a childish honeymooning couple most interested in making out in the back seat. Etc.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>