28th May, 2009 Travel to Jackson, Wyoming. Up and on our way early this morning, back through the Wind River Canyon (took photo's this time), down to Shoshoni and onto SH26. Stopped at a neat little town "Boise" for lunch and had a great conversation with the owner of the coffee bar, a large grizzly bear had taken a wonder through the local camp ground last night - must have been looking for Sam. Population of Boise is 600, but has a number of restaurants / coffee bars due to its halfway location. The wolf has been reintroduced into Wyoming after nearly being wiped out and is now in such numbers it is wiping out many of the other animals, including the Moose, they pray on their young. Apparently have a liking for domestic pets as ... read more

25th May, 2009 Casper, Wyoming Headed off early as we were expecting thunderstorms, yes it was cold and got to 53F (11.5c). The rain managed to hold off most of the way, but we drove the last 50miles in sometimes heavy rain (yes we have learnt our lesson, we won't be bragging about the weather over here anymore). Got to Casper, rain stopped and we headed off for a look around, Casper is an oil town, although you wouldn't think it with the highest fuel prices to date (why is that, they pump it, process it and charge more for it than someone down the road who has to pay freight?). Went for a walk along the Platte River that evening, river is famous for its trout, Cut throat, Brown, Rainbow and more, they do a ... read more

22nd May, 2009 Travel to Cheyenne, Wyoming Departed Greeley today and headed up SH85, at the Colorado / Wyoming boarder we stopped at the "Terry Bison Ranch" a 5000 acre Bison ranch and tourist attraction with 2500 Bison. This ranch is 1/3 in Wyoming, 2/3 in Colorado, apparently a tax nightmare. Hopped aboard the Train (??????) and went for a ride on part of the ranch stopping to see the Bison fed. They are huge, the male of the group we observed was 2600 lb, only one mating male per herd otherwise they fight to the death, all other males are sterilised, no threat then. The Bison today are 1 ft shorter and 500lb lighter than the original Bison as they were nearly wiped out, from 600,000 to just 325, a breeding programme was put in ... read more

19th May, 2009 Travel to Greeley, Colorado Left Idaho Springs and travelled down the Rocky Mountains, bypassing Denver to Boulder, lovely city butno were for us to camp out, one park with 23 sites in the hills but fully booked. Boulder is a University City of 100,000 people, one third of these students. Irony of it all, you can be fined $1000 for walking in a Public place smoking a cigerette, BUT only $250 for smoking a joint. Anyway on to Greeley where our GPS let us down and we got totally lost (has done it a few times but not as bad as today), anyway questions, resetting the GPS and finally we found our RV Park, not easy doing u turns when you are approx 45ft long. Nice camp except somebody built it close to ... read more

17th May, 2009 Grand Junction to Idaho Springs Just when you thought you had seen everything, today was awesome, from Grand Junction we travelled East over the Rocky Mountains, summit being 10,603 ft. Up through small Ski resorts (no shortage of money here if the homes etc are anything to go by), such as Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Gypsum, Eagle, Edwards, and Vaili. We followed the Colorado River up the Valley - a raging torrent with many rafters enjoying the rapids, untill we reached the summit, a big climb towing the RV but on a fantastic two lane highway (each way). At the top we went through the tunnel and started coming down the mountains. Still lots of snow on the tops as the photos show. We drove down to a place called Georgetown (Old Gold Mining ... read more