29th May, 2009 Jackson, Wyoming. Well up and at it this morning, out to Teton Village and a Tram ride up to the Rendezvous Mountain Summit and Corbets cabin, The Tram is a Very large Gondola capable of carrying 100 people, climbs up a vertical rise of 4,139 ft in 12 mins, and what a spectacular view, has to be one of the best. Looks down on the Snake River, Teton village, over to the Snake Mountains and to the Grand Teton range, Absolutely brilliant and they named one of their mountains after our grandson "Cody Mountain". At Corbets cabin (named [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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27th May, 2009. Thermopolis Down to the Mineral Springs this morning and in for a relaxing soak, nice. Talked to a couple of locals who firmly believe that the minerals have done their aches and pains a considerable amount of good. There are 28 minerals in the water (don't ask me what they are). Twenty minutes was enough in the 104 degree F (40C) bath. Down town and into the local Cultural museum, which was worth a look, a lot of History here and great exhibits, they have the original "hole in the wall bar" (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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24th May, 2009 Cheyenne & Laramie Drove over to Laramie today to visit some of my Cowboy heroes, they weren't home. One of the first things you notice about the surrounding farmlands of Cheyenne is it's lack of trees, huge rolling farms (but no trees), this all changed as we headed to Laramie. Along the road they have huge timber barriers in the paddocks, these are there to prevent snow drifts coming down onto the road and in some cases there was still snow on the ground. Laramie is a town of around 27 thousand people, we went out to the [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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20th May, 2009 Greeley Hi folks, not a lot to report today. Greeley isn't the most exciting place, deffinately not a tourist highlight. Caught up on a few bits and pieces and hit the sack. 21st May, 2009 Greeley - trip to Denver for the day. Off down to Denver today, a run of 62 miles. Denver is a lovely city and sits at exactly a mile high, no need to hop on an aeroplane to join the mile high club here. Plenty of green area's and lovely parks and walks. We drove right into the city with the help of [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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18th May, 2009. Idaho Springs Up and back up to Georgetown this morning, Georgetown is a Ski resort and an old mining town. We wandered the streets and took in the history of the pace, it is one of the only old surviving gold towns, most were burnt down, many old buildings dating back to the early 1800's. Then off to tour a Silver mine - great experience. Only the two of us on the tour, the owner takes you back into the mountain about 500ft, through the tunnels. This mine was closed down, but there is still plenty of Silver [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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