Super 8 Motel - Green River

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>

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 ...

... 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.<br>

... an area where there were snow patches on the ground at highway level but far away in the hills. At some place west of Laramie on Hwy I-80, as I was thinking about the book 'My Friend Flicka' which was set in the Snowy Range west of Laramie and was one of my favorite girlhood books, I crossed the Continental Divide at 7,000 feet. I told Scooter it was all downhill from that point westward. He didn't seem impressed, but I was because it really felt as though I was on my ...

... s a good thing that it's population is sparse, since the mining takes up a lot of space and is not particularly beautiful either. It's good to be back in the west, and I'm struck by how much more this area feels like the west than further west does. I know that I live about as far west as one can get in the continental US, but Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, and Nevada feel more like 'the west' than the west coast does. I guess it's because I live in 'ecotopia' not the 'wild west'.

... to see the Abe Lincoln statute, but it was so cold and windy that I was the only one there. You might ask, why is Abe Lincoln standing over I-80. The answer is that I-80 tracks most of the route of the much older US Route 30. Route 30 is better known as the Lincoln Highway and is the first road to cross the entire U.S. Thus, you will find many Linclon Highway references ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... one was Salt Lake City with remains of Great Salt Lake where the salt is collected for Morton Salt Co. and where Jet Blue outsourcing takes place. It is also a home to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly called the Mormon Church. We were impressed of the magnificence, the size and the ...

... morning, yet quite warm. We would get a good paddle in the early part of the day, with wind picking up around 2 p.m. or so, and on a few days it became really strong, causing us to put our awning away. We then would practice maneuvering in the waves, which got to be around 2-3 feet high at times. We enjoyed the practice. When we decided to practice rolling we also practiced some two ...