Paul arrived along with a very well healed crowd uneventfully yesterday. Early start for him [2:30 am MT time], painful PHL security process which evidently is not atypical to the point he was worried about missing his plane. Jackson Hole is a free parking airport - my first ever.
We had time to see a few of the sites in Jackson, shop at the local outdoor store where serious climbing ropes are standard fare. Both Paul and I selected new hiking style footgear and he found a noteworthy pair of sheepskin style lined flip flops, all on sale.
We had a great drive through the Grand Teton Park, stopping at several places I had passed by on the way down on Sunday.
We went on to Yellowstone, stopping at the West Thumb area
before it got dark and checked in to the Yellowstone Old Faithful Snow Lodge. Beautiful facility but no TV's in the rooms and more surprising to Paul, no internet. Dinner was quite mediocre but great location. Paul went to sleep by 8:30 MT so no need for TV and internet. We were right next to Old Faithful which we stopped and saw this AM, went off 7 minutes early. Quite spectacular. We made a number of stops, did a 5 mile hike to Fairy Falls, took lots of pictures. Saw numerous buffalo, elk,
deer but no bears. The park is very empty - our lodge, the last one open, closes on Sunday. It was nice having no traffic, lots of wild life and beautiful park.
Ended up this evening at West Yellowstone, complete with TV [baseball game] and internet along with washer and dryer[Paul needs] and indoor pool and hot tub. Best Western is very clued in to the desires of the typical American traveler.
Picture posting is a challenge due to so, so internet wireless service so they are in process. We are a long way from anything but trees.
3 comments:
hi Kath & Paul....Wish I could be there too...Marg
Hi Paul and Kathleen, glad to see the pictures up on the blog. I have a baseball question. I know that you are in football country but I wonder if many people are into the colorado rockies and their amazing run in the baseball playoffs. I am rooting for the red sox but I am resigned to a rockies-indians playoff series...which should be excellent baseball. Charlie
Pictures were a nice addition. Keep'm coming.
About the baseball comments... this central OHIO household is rooting for Chief Wahoo and the Cleveland Indians; though we are are a Cincinnati Reds crowd when the intra-state contests take place.
I noticed that the state of Wyoming does,indeed, have some disc golf courses (course lengths are very impressive with many holes nearly 600 ft in length - often part of "out-of-season" ski slopes,i.e , Jackson Hole/Teton course). You will need the arm strength of Cleveland Indians ace pitcher C.C. Sabathia (or, if you prefer, Bo. Sox Josh Becket) to heave a plastic disc that far.
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