Day Two

Day #2: 6/20/2010

Start- Dinosaur National Monument
End- Jackson Hole, WY

Today's miles: 324
Total miles: 720

Passed through: Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

Marriage status: holding strong

Notes for today:

We started out about 6:15 this morning, and saw a beautiful view of the rising sun over the river at our campground. Then we attempted to make breakfast, however this was not as successful as our dinner last night. We tried making pancakes, but with no butter or Pam in the pan, it turned into more of a cooked batter mound than individual round pancakes. But it still tasted good and we packed up camp and headed off to the Dinosaur National Monument visitor center.

From there we took a shuttle to go on a guided tour of a trail where you could see several dinosaur fossils in the surrounding rock. It was pretty cool actually, but one of the walls of rock in the park that has been almost entirely excavated (and you can see a lot of fossils) is in the old visitor center which is now condemned due to a sinking foundation. But they are going to make the rock wall visible again after they complete the brand new visitor center (currently they just have a temp building). But we were disappointed we didn't get to see it.

After the tour we headed out of town and toward Jackson Hole, WY. On the way we drove through Flaming Gorge Recreational Area, and that was amazing. Not only was it pretty with the red rocks, massive reservoir, and snow capped mountains in the background, it was also a really fun curvy motorcycle road. We also saw lots of antelope on the drive today, which was really cool until one darted out across the road in front of Tomme, and then quickly turned around and darted again over the road in front of me. In case my mom reads this I am going to say that the antelope was not that close and I did not almost hit it (wink, wink). We also had great views of the Rockies most of the drive today so no complaints on the scenery. But we did have about a 150 mile stretch of straight and windy road again, but as least the view didn't remind me of Kansas like yesterday's.

Finally we arrived in Jackson Hole. We set up camp, took showers, and then headed off to downtown for dinner. We went to a place called Billy's that Tomme remembered as having the best burgers in the world as a boy, and they were indeed pretty close. Then we went to a brewery and tried some local brew. All in all it was another good day. We have covered a lot more ground so far than we thought we would so we are going to try and see if the campground has a spot for us to stay an extra night in Jackson instead of heading straight to Yellowstone tomorrow.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Jackson Hole