La Quinta 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 :-)

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 ...

... west boom town. The coal and oil industry's are really expanding. New buildings going up everywhere. Everyone here drives a 4 wheel drive pick up - and I mean everyone. Driving a Chevy Impala made me just a little afraid. I added some of the better photos from my days in Chicago. Tomorrow we land in Eagle, ID.

... for settlers to come through that area, and on the other side of the highway the land had been cleared off and planted to alfalfa with quarter-circle irrigation systems in place. Speaking of those interesting corn storage facilities, I forgot to describe them the first day I noticed them, but what I first noticed were some sort of house sized metal cage-like devices that looked sort of like large, circular bird cages with kind of ornate bell-shaped tops. When I saw the ...

... 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 ...

... the wide open farm and range land of the West. The light traffic makes for a very easy drive. You can just lean back, enjoy the scenery and listen to the radio or watch (listen) to a DVD and time flys by. I enjoyed one of my all time favorites today, "Honeymoon in Vegas." Everyone should drive across the country. You get a real appreciation size and resources of this ...

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 ...

... canyons qui se reflètent dans le bleu du lac, habité de truites et saumon. Nous avons loué un petit bateau à moteur (marina au sud), pris un pic-nic (sauf le Mountain Dew qui a cruellement manqué à Laurent) et en route pour la visite qui devait durer 3 heures..et a fini en 6 tant le lieu était beau et l'eau attirante ! Aucun touriste, une route « scenic » et des couleurs qui rappellent les parcs de l'Utah ...

... of their churches around the city. Whatever huge building appeared to be a government office, bank or a library, happened to be the Church of Latter Day Saints... Whether modern or Disney-like castle, its magnitude is breathtaking! I especially adore the Great Salt Lake. The white minerals ...

... off for Fort Collins. On the drive up Nick had a chance to ask me more about Buddhism and about his sister's Buddhist practice. We concluded that to be happy, one has to take responsibility of the world around them, their world. If we are constantly complaining how we can't do this and that, it becomes our limitations itself. And Buddhism is about empowering ourselves and tearing down those limitation that unknowingly set upon ourselves. Becoming aware of how we set these ...