Holiday Inn Rock Springs, Wy

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 :-)

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 :-)

Randi woke up at 4AM at the rest area and started driving. I slept. We shared driving and resting as we crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. Our only stops were rest areas. We could not take any more rest areas, so a Best Western in the middle of nowhere ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

After traveling through lowering skies, heavy air, and the threat of thunder storms and even tornadoes yesterday, this morning I woke to sunshine and a cool breeze. North Platte is at about 2800 feet and is on the line between the crop land of Iowa and eastern Iowa (corn and soybeans mostly) and hay, pasture and rangeland. So, as I drove west I felt more as though I was in 'the west'. Ranches were larger, and were further and further apart, instead of ¼ to ½ mile between ...

... see it but no luck. Added moose and a distant eagle to list of wildlife we saw. Day ended up being a lot longer than we planned. We were going to stay in Jackson and go back into Teton to take some morning pictures the next day but the hotels seemed too expensive so we headed on south to Rock Springs which was about 4 hours away. When we got there at ...

Ce matin, après le traditionnel breakfast américain et quinze jours bien remplis, les deux familles se séparent: les Pierrat vont direction plein est pour 1600 km de route vers Milwaukee (Wisconsin), terre de leur expatriation de 2003 à 2006. Pour nous, direction le Sud et Salt Lake city, via quelques 800 km de Wyoming. Comme d'habitude, nous avons encore passé un excellent séjour ensemble ! Nous décidons ...

Today we got from Nevada, through Utah, to Wyoming. The view is changing dramatically, from dry and sandy to green and lively, from flat to rocky, from empty fields to busy towns. It's funny that we've gone through three states, but there were only few towns on the way of Interstate Highway 80. The ...

... s economic expansion, since the US did whatever it pleased during it's Industrial Revolution. Dialogues like these. I'm glad Ryan drove us. It was a long, tired drive back but when we got to Denver Nick actually needed a ride to Fort Collins to his girlfriend, Mona's place. He didn't have a car and he came down with Ryan. Just right. I was driving north anyway. From Denver, Ryan gave me a jug of water (which came in handy later) and we said our goodbyes to him as Nick and I ...