These are our favorites from the middle of September in Wyoming and Montana. [View Full Entry]

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Mark Posting (please note that many of the pictures do not correspond to the blog - most are from a walk we took yesterday): I need to write something so that Liz does not completely hijack the blog. Unfortunately this will be the third entry in three days so the amount of untold material is limited. Therefore it is perfect timing to fulfill a promise I made a while back to convey our "national lampoon's" camping stories from this past summer. Liz and I have already referred to ourselves as Clark and Ellen Griswold on a couple occasions and these stories [View Full Entry]

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Mark Posting: Last night I considered multi-tasking by writing a blog while watching the Patriots play the Colts on Sunday night football. I'm thankful I decided to focus on the game though as I fear my computer would have endured an abrupt meeting with the wall. Even though I'm typically not as vocal as, say, my older brother it took quite a bit of restraint to remain on my best behavior while watching the game at the home of Liz's aunt and uncle. It is not worth reliving the horror that was "Football Night in America" as I'm sure any of [View Full Entry]

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Liz posting: It looks cold outside. Even though my weather bug tells me its only 33.8 with no wind, it still looks cold outside. We live in a narrow valley in between what I would consider two foothills of the Wyoming mountain range. We woke up with a light dusting of snow on the "hills" and I can see the tall pine trees swaying forty feet up. The house overlooks the Hoback river and even though it is running a good clip still, unaffected by ice, I bet it is cold. Even the mother and twin fawns that come to graze [View Full Entry]

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Liz posting: After arriving in the Jackson area- actually [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4345+hoback+river+road,+jackson,+wy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=4345+Hoback+River+Rd,+Jackson,+WY+83001&gl=us&ei=Zu_6SuOAEI_-nAeszqj4DA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA] just south of Hoback Junction - we are finally settled in. The hard, windy drive from Colorado to Jackson was not that fun, but arriving to my aunt's house with glasses of wine and beer nearly poured for us was. Saturday was a really long, full [View Full Entry]

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Mark Posting: The last couple posts have been exhaustive recounts of every little thing that Liz and I have done. I can guarantee another one of those will be available to all you eager readers soon enough. However, tonight I am going to save my fingertips and simply upload a bunch of photos that we've taken over the past several days which have not yet made their way onto the blog. Side note - I really don't like the word blog. I enjoy reading several of them and am having a great time writing this one with Liz but find it [View Full Entry]

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In May 2008, I visited Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks for the first time. On the way, Mom and I drove through Bridger-Teton National Forest, just south and east of Jackson, on US 189 and US 191. The clouds, the light rain, and the beautiful hills made for a wonderful drive. [View Full Entry]

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The most beautiful places I have ever been! Os lugares mais espectaculares onde estive até hoje! [View Full Entry]

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Iffy phone service and no internet. I''m technologically-challenged! Sitting in a Superwalmart now and YES!!!!! INTERNET! We are trying to get South before the snow. First stop was Flaming Gorge National Park located both in Wyoming and Utah. We camped on the lake and had a million dollar view. Sandy and Bruce put their kayaks in and saw another view....water so clear they saw the canyon walls beneath them. The antelope are migrating too. We kept some distance as the bucks started dividing up the herd of cows. We continued down switch-back roads with 9-12% grades through canyon wa [View Full Entry]

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We next camped at Colter Bay Campground in the Grand Tetons National Park. We had 26 miles of dirt road (construction) to get out of Yellowstone! Colter Bay was surrounded by the Teton’s. It was a magical, spiritual experience. Beginning 10 million years ago, movement on the Teton fault caused massive earthquakes, pushing the mountains up and dropping the valley floor--vertical displacement of 30,000 ft. Even a panorama picture cannot capture the majestic Tetons! A morning walk with our friends Bruce & Sandy was special fun for doggy Taggert; as he tried to take Sandy swimming in [View Full Entry]

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