Alarms went off again at 7.30am which is happening all too often. I think we all had good sleeps though in the cool fresh air of Jackson Hole and we were soon off down to breakfast for the usual continental affair of Frosty Flakes, a muffin, OJ and a couple of slices of toast with jam. We left around 9.30am after we had got everything packed away in the car. Did a refill of the fuel tank, and bought a coffee from the same cafe we went to yesterday next to the Movie Theatre and we were on our way to Salt Lake City in Utah where we have an evening flight to Los Angeles. I had initially planned on taking the 5 hour trip (plus stops) pretty much due south which had a brief period ... read more

Well our accommodation is at the 3 Bear Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana. Our room fronts the main street and it is on the first floor and quite new as the Motel was destroyed by fire in 2009 and only recently rebuilt. Our room has 1 main bedroom, an alcove area where there is a single bed a tiny bed for little bears as well as a main open plan living area with a separate Queen Bed and a large Dining Table, Bathroom. We also had a big outdoor balcony area overlooking the main street. Agreed to have a sleep in today after so much driving and we were not up until 10am, and had breakfast at the 3 Bears Lodge Restaurant around 10.50am (they closed at 11am !). They were super fast cooking our eggs ... read more

Well what an experience to have stayed in this Hotel. The creaking of the floorboards as you walked around the rooms felt like the Hotel was talking to you about it’s old stories. I had my shower in one of those old bath tabs with the fancy legs and curtains hanging around the outside. If felt weird as I had no wall around me but why weird as I don’t usually fall into the walls by habit ! No breakfast included here so we headed next door to the Busy Bee Cafe, which barely had room for us. They took ages to take our order and even longer to serve the meals (how long does it take to cook eggs and hash browns ?) I think it took nearly an hour. I was getting frustrated for ... read more

Kerry and I had the continental breakfast which was pretty ordinary and the kids were a bit late getting up so we ate without them. When they surfaced we took them to nearby Peggy’s for Breakfast where they had some cooked food. We then headed off for some sightseeing. First on the agenda was doing the Iron Mountain Road trip. This road was an engineering masterpiece when it was first built and includes three tunnels where they are perfectly aligned so that when you drive through them you see Mt Rushmore National Monument directly in front of you. Amazing how this was done. Also the road has several pig tail bridges which are really neat to see and something quite different. After that we started the Wildlife Loop Road. This was something I had really been ... read more

Bad start with phone alarms going off at 6am (NYC time and forgot to change timezone !!) I did the breaky run as everyone was really feeling tired after all the action so far (was it 4 of 5 trips I had to make downstairs?) Cereal, Bananas, Muffins, OJ & AJ, Hot Chocolate, Toast & Marmalade, Milk, Yoghurts. Being 4th July we had sourced an outlet shopping sale at Castle Rock about 40km south of Denver on the way to Colorado Springs. The road we travelled on was the Interstate # 25 and the weather today was a lot clearer and we could actually just see the Rocky Mountains although there was little snow on the peaks after the heat wave conditions the USA has had for the last 2 weeks. We arrived in Castle Rock ... read more