Dear Diary,
Another great day to be alive. I woke up at 9 because I forced myself to sleep in as long as I could. I hung around for a bit, enjoying the beautiful view of the Tetons while Chris slept. Pretty nice. Chris woke up and got ready and we lazily hit the road around 11.
It's quite incredible, the Teton Range doesn't seem to have any foothills. Just flat land, and boom, enormous mountains. Pretty awesome. This place must be packed in the summertime. We gawked for the whole drive.
Saw our final bison of the trip just outside of Jackson, then drove through town a little bit. There's a small ski resort that's right in town, but the famous Jackson Hole ski resort is about 14 miles outside of town, so we went and had a look. Looks pretty cool. The ski town itself, Teton Village, was more a collection of condos and parking lots than a real town. Kind of like Snowmass is in Colorado. To be honest, this definitely isn't the ideal time to be at this ski resort. Too early for summer, too late for winter skiing. Still pretty cool to at least see though.
Next, we admired some Osprey nests, which were huge, perched atop powerline poles. And we drove. And drove. And it rained, and rained. At one point it seemed like we were entering some form of hell, with deep gray skies, lightning, strong wind and sideways rain. To be honest though, I really love a good storm and find it quote beautiful. This was no exception.
Taco Bell offered its five star services in Rock Springs, WY. A beautiful combination of "almost mexican" food delighted our palettes. I love taco bell.
I switched to the drivers seat and drove I-80 for a while on great conditions, but that turned back to rain after I turned South. The small town of Baggs, WY looked on the brink of flooding disaster. Hope it doesn't get out of control for them. Water sure was high though.
We crossed into Colorado and more rain led us to believe we might have to avoid camping. Amazingly, the rain cleared up just before our destination of Craig, CO. We checked out one campground which didn't look too appealing. Then quickly googled and found yampa river state park a few miles Dow the road. It's slightly overpriced at $27 for the night, but there's no one here, it's beautiful green grass (a rarity around here lately), I did laundry, took a shower, and there's a cool awning over the picnic table, so I decided to sleep directly on the table. Sometimes this can be cool, as there's no ground underneath for insulation, but I ca set up my tent if it becomes unbearable.
We also played frisbee golf around the campground for a while which was quite fun. The fire took forever to start as we had very little kindling, zero medium size sticks, and lots of very large pieces if wood with no way to cut them into little pieces. It took forever, and two different kinds of flammable liquid in quite some quantity to really get it going. It did eventually turn into a great fire. Nice and warm.
We stayed up pretty late talking about this and that. It's really been a great trip. Tomorrow the plan is to slowly get up (it's 1:08am as I wrote this), pack up with me reorganizing the car so it can accommodate as much groceries as possible, drive toward Aspen and make a huge run on Super Walmart. Quite excited about this. My goal is to eat a lot healthier, but still stay cheap. Life is quite fun! It's all those little things.
Xoxo,
Blake
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