Remember the Peanuts Halloween special  “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” from long, long ago?

As Charlie Brown trick or treated with his friends, they all checked their bags after each house, commenting on what they got. Lucy got a Snickers bar, Linus got M and M’s, and Charlie Brown said, “I got a rock.”

That’s what we felt like today driving through Yellowstone Park. We only drive one leg of the park, but we felt gypped by the wildlife.

We only saw four elk, two cows with their calves, and a small group of antelope. That’s it!

No buffalo (my personal favorite), no deer, no bull elk, no sheep. Nothing except for 10,500 homo sapiens.

The last time we visited the park it was with our friends Dean and Lil during the spring of 2013. We saw five bears, hundreds of bison with their calves, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, dozens of elk, etc…

We plan on coming back to the park in late September and we will plan our visit around several drives through the north east portion of the park in the Lamar Valley–the best place to view wildlife.