JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

There was a huge thunderstorm last night, lots of lightning and rain but when we got up at 6 am it was a clear blue sky.  We took highway 191, then highway 44 which took us way up into the mountains and skirted most of the Flaming Gorge.  The view was amazing from the 8000 foot elevation, the sky was BIG and the air was crisp and cool.  We saw at least 10 deer feeding beside the highway eating all of the rich green grass. 



Hwy 412 -- Carter, Wyoming - Ghost Town

From the highway 44 we went on the 414, 412, and finally the 189 which took us on the west side of the Grand Tetan Mountain range into Jackson Wyoming.  The ranches are huge with herds of horses and cattle roaming in the scrub grasslands and fields; the ranchers are all busy with the haying.

Jackson is the “Whistler” of Wyoming, everything is double the price of anywhere else; our room is $142.00 and not as nice as the $49.95 rooms we had in New Mexico.  We are on the west side of town a long way from the busy downtown where the Best Western is $300 a night!  No martini tonight, it is too far to walk and we don’t want a DWI on this side of the border!   The temperature was 84 degrees at 4 pm!

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

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