#30-The Tetons

Alas—it’s been another nice day. We got to another primo campsite at Colter Bay in The Tetons. It’s not at all crowded and very laid back. We are next to some closed loops, so we can walk the dogs and even cheat a little without leashes.

YuIiya deemed it a “vegetative” day which meant we didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything--cool. I ended up working most of the day on resizing pictures, so I will soon be changing our vacation picture page, but of course, when I got them all set up on the page, I screwed something up. So I will redo it tomorrow morning when we have generator and then I just have to find a good connection to upload everything. Stacy just vegged and it felt good. Isn’t that what you are suppose to do on vacation?

Yuliya went off and took a hike and then came running back to tell us of stampeding bison. Of course she didn’t see them, but heard them in the woods and wanted us to go with her to find them, so she could prove to us what monsters made her run from the woods. I said it was probably only a herd of chipmunks but we went in search anyway. We did find a doe deer that limped, with her baby—but no bison. Amazing how noises get so much bigger when you are by yourself in the woods…I think she was glad we at least found a deer.

We then went to explore the services of our campground and ran into some people that told us about Jackson Lake Lodge down the road 5 miles. They were going there for drinks and we decided that sounded like a great idea—so we joined them. We chitchatted and told the amazing story of our trip, drank our margaritas and ate some appetizers—an enjoyable evening. They were a good audience and no doubt will become blog readers. We do seem to talk to about anyone…but they always seem to enjoy it so I guess that’s ok.

When we left the lodge we were greeted with a moose jam right outside the lodge road, so we got our first moose sighting in the Tetons—a cow and a calf. Stacy is holding out for her “buck moose” before she will be satisfied, but at least we broke the ice. Brings the moose count up to 5/ bears stuck at 12.

We have all decided we like where we are at, so I imagine we will stay at this campground for at least a couple of days. We then want to check out one on the south side of the park, which would be very convenient to Jackson, so I imagine we will go there for a couple of more days. Yuliya wants to stay here for weeks—but I doubt if we will end up doing that—but it is a very nice park for our $9 a night. If we could get better cell service it would be nice so we might check out service in the rest of the loops to see where it is best. This one is a back loop and I do like not having many people around us. I want it ALL!!!

My hands are still an issue but at least better, and the infected one seems on the mend. We are also hearing pretty regularly from Kelly which has been wonderful. Guess she was serious about her new commitment of keeping in touch better. I’ll never agree with those that think the ordeal with her parents might have been a good thing—but it does seem to have made an impression on her and seems to have changed our relationship with her to the positive. I guess that is what we hold on to…