Painted Buffalo Inn

... After the top, it was again steep down the other side and they were forced to run down! Anyway, we are now at the Painted Buffalo in Jackson, a very pleasant motel, an independant. They even have a buffalo on exch bed! However, they are not complimentary, ...

... act as a very effective fence. Most of the wildlife now in the park had to be re-introduced.  All of the buffalo, black-footed ferrets, Swift foxes and Bighorn sheep within the park had been killed off.  They were re-introduced at various times ...

... owner chatted with us about the forthcoming British Royal Wedding and showed us the pub’s prize possession - Charlie the water buffalo, of Crocodile Dundee fame, now stuffed and behind the bar. We reached Batchelor, at the edge of Litchfield Park, ...

... and, whilst the structural foundations were antiquated, most buildings had been rebuilt and renewed over the years. Red painted slogans from the Cultural Revolution still adorned the walls and doors complete with stenciled images of Chairman Mao, signs ...

... we know what to wear when we got around the next turn.  Then there were the animals.  They were everywhere…….Buffalo, mule deer, and elk.  Sorry no moose or bear today.  But I am not talking about just a few Buffalo.  ...

... that the Apache's had a practice of shooting all their remaining arrows into a tree at the summit in celebration of a successful buffalo hunt.  Take your pick; I prefer the second story myself. Descending from the summit there were two places that ...

... up for $60,000. I was tempted! ;-) Parts of Caesars were like walking the streets of Rome or Atlantis as the ceilings were painted like the sky which change from dawn to dusk every 3 hours - another way to confuse those without watches into having no idea ...

... from bone and buffalo horn. We went and sat in the park and played chess, a lady came along and gave me a manicure for $2 and painted my nails bright green at my request. We went to a very nice looking restuarant to have Chicken noodle soup -Pho Ga. Leigh ...

... sang it at the church dedication service. So Pitts wrote a song for a church that wasn't there and the congregation had painted the church brown without ever hearing the song...amazing! (My favorite rendition is done by Tennessee Ernie Ford.) Finally made ...

... walking his buffalo back to his house... An early night followed ready for an early morning for the wedding tomorrow... Day 5:- 1 Buffalo Man and a Wedding! 6am - another early morning, this trip was getting exhausting!! Up and ready and off to the ...

... warning that it was only available while supplies lasted. We went to Perkins instead. Best Lunch:  A tie:  The Bumpin' Buffalo, Hill City, South Dakota AND Alien Bar and Grill, Albertville, Minnesota. Both had good food, good service, and ...

... to offer. Not much that is except for Terminal Gravity Brewing that is. Nestled back off the main street traffic area, painted wooden sign points beer drinkers toward the Terminal Brewing Company. Unlike the more sterile and industrial feel a brewery can ...

... used to just display "BAR" in orange neon.  Since then, the right edge of the B was painted over, thus converting it into an E, hence the Ear Inn.  I enjoyed some Yuengling - America's oldest beer, and chatted with my neighbor about the city ...

... no time.   On our way to the hotel we saw people washing their clothing, bathing, a few villages, fields, oxen (water buffalo), floating garden, monasteries, stupas, Temples,... so peaceful!   It was a one hour long tail boat ride to ...

... as the girls arrived 2 hours later than us at the end of the first days hike.  With nothing more than the occasional arrow painted on a rock to lead the way we spent the first 15 minutes wondering if we were on the right path until the track turned ...

... our hotel window. That afternoon we rode a rickshaw and hiked to a Tibetan Buddhist Temple that overlooked a valley. It was brightly painted and interesting to learn a little about the Buddhist religion. I had been on the look out for prayer flags in the ...

... of zoos and animal related experiences over the years, but this was about the best animal interaction i've ever had. Elephants painted us a picture, we rode elephants, were picked up in elephant trunks, fed elephants, petted elephants, twice hand fed and ...

... , and generally forgetting about all responsibility. We stayed in some fantastic places, each with it's own particular flavour: Buffalo Bay, outside Knysna, totally isolated and directly on the beach; and Plettenberg Bay, another beach paradise, located ...