Journaling the dream

I enjoy journaling - even when nothing special is happening.  But for this particular event in our lives I thought it might be fun to share some of our adventures and thoughts with our friends and relatives.  Hope it won't be too boring - but the intent of the blog is to record thoughts, facts and pictures surrounding this special time in our lives.

We left our home on July 2, 2011 and started west.  After spending  Saturday with Greg and Sunday with Bud's sister in Paris, we started in earnest our trip to Wyoming.  We had very good traveling weather and all of our accomodations on the road were very comfortable. 

We had one bump in the road in Missouri as we were traveling north on I-29.  We were heading toward Lincoln, NE when we were detoured off the road near Nebraska City, Iowa because of flooding.  (see picture).  We had to travel about 100 miles out of our way before we could head toward Lincoln again, but it was a beautiful drive and we were grateful that the road and weather were good. 

We stayed Tuesday night in Laramie, WY and Wednesday night in Pinedale, Wy. 

We are in Jackson, WY now and are really enjoying the cooler days/nights.  We will be here for 4 days then we head into Yellowstone.  This is the first year we have visited this area so early and are very surprised at all the snow that remains on the mountains.

All the news around here is about the tragic bear attack in Yellowstone.  Of course, we always have our bear spray when we are out and about in Yellowstone, but this year it is more important than ever.  Everyone involved in tourism around the area says that the bears are more prevalent this year than in the past because of the late winter snows and the lack of berry production in the highlands.  That is driving the bears closer to inhabited areas in search for food.

We are taking these few days to acclimate to the higher altitude and thinner air.  Today we went to Teton Village and walked around.  There is no flat land there, so we were challenged to move onward and upward.  Took lots of pictures. Here are a few of them.  Hope everyone will enjoy them.