Bison at Yellowstone Lake
The Matesich family of Centerville Borough has an interesting way of selecting vacation destinations: they look for the cheapest airfare they can find to a place they might want to visit.
This year’s flight destination was Spokane, Washington to take advantage of an unexpired National Park pass.
“We flew into Spokane and went to Glacier National Park, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. We had bought one of the annual National Park passes last July, so we still had some time left on it. It’s like a 13-month pass if you use it right,” said Cheryl Matesich.
Matesich said she and her husband had vacationed out west 20 years ago, but didn’t get to spend nearly enough time at Yellowstone National Park, and their children had never been there. Matesich said her family also makes its reservations as the vacation is progressing, not before. The spontaneity paid off.
“We always take our laptop. We found a hotel near Yellowstone, ten made our reservations for the next night. We went to Old Faithful because you’ve got to go,” Matesich said.
On a whim, her husband checked at the Old Faithful Hotel and discovered a vacancy caused by a last-minute cancellation.
“The bellboy said we had the most requested room in the hotel. You could see Old Faithful from one window and the entire geyser basin from the other. There was only a sink in the room. You had to go down the hall to the bathroom, like a college dorm. There was no phone, no Internet, nothing. It was the best vacation ever,” Matesich said.
Old Faithful
Tags: bison, Old Faithful, Yellowstone
