Best Western Outlaw Inn Rock Springs

Der Grand Teton National Park eignet sich super zum Baden und Wandern, leider ist es dazu im Moment eher zu kalt. Wir haben die traumhafte Kulisse (Rocky Mountains) trotzdem sehr genossen...immerhin die ersten richtigen Berge seit 6 Monaten :-)<br><br>Ansonsten gibt es in Wyoming nichts ausser endlosen Ebenen mit Tausenden von Rinderherden...kein Wunder, bei den vielen Burgern, die hier in den USA gegessen werden. Die meisten kennen ja Salat nur als Teil eines Burgers :-)<br>

Drove through Nebraska and most of Wyoming to get to Rock Springs WY today. Arrived by 5 pm. The mountains are real cool. So cool that there is still snow on top of many. We stopped at the Fort Cody Trading Post. It was filled with all kinds of good stuff. I managed to escape without making a purchase. I was in ...

... that was designed with rounded corners and the corners were made with bricks that had slots designed into each brick. Very ingenious, but it made me wonder how the farmers keep the rodents out of the corn in the crib. All day so far the highway had been climbing slowly, and by the time I reached Wyoming, and especially Cheyenne, I felt as though I was on the top of the world. Before that even, I felt at home when I saw real mountains again with snow on top! I even drove ...

... it became 1 to 2 miles or more between them. There were cross fences to contain beef cows in pastures, and I no longer saw the interesting corn storage facilities that I had seen the past couple of days. The vegetation changed too as I climbed. Wide open flat fields gave way to rolling hills with clumps of mostly cottonwoods, willows and cedars growing in grass land. There was one stretch where the woods hadn't been cleared out and it was possible to imagine what it was ...

... country. When you see it all first hand you realize we could feed the world ten times over if we wanted too. You know you are not in Florida when you enter a restroom in the Midwest. The worst restroom out here is twice as clean as the cleanest restroom in Florida. It is such a blessing to not only find hot water and soap but an abundant supply of paper towels. I ...

This day we toured Grand Teton National Park. The scenery was even better than Yellowstone although the haze in front of the mountains never really cleared. Had another leisurely picnic by a river and talked to one of the tour guides for the river float that was taking out of the place we were resting. He reported that a grissly bear was in the area and we ...

... notamment dans la gorge qui s'appelle Red Canyon. Un détour à recommander...même si du coup nous avons roulé à fond ensuite pour rejoindre Salt Lake à temps pour rendre la voiture de location et rejoindre notre hôtel. Nuit, ou disons halte nocturne super courte : coucher minuit lever 4h pour vol au départ à 6h10 direction Boston (prononcer Boa-ston) ...via Dallas. Dernier épisode, plus urbain de notre voyage.

... rafting jitters outta me. Nick requested that Tonya be our guide on the trip. She suggested we suit up in wetsuit and booties. At first I wanted to tough it out with my jeans and tennis shoes but I soon realized that that would have been a terrible mistake. It was about a 15 minute drive from the office to the Browns River site. On the way, we talked about how there'd been more deaths comparatively with rafting than skydiving. The story here is that Nick used to work for ...