ON TO WYOMING

July 9, 2016

On an earlier post, I mentioned that to get Denny to agree to this trip, I added a spot that I knew he wanted to go to. This was the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.  We had been there in 1975 and Denny always wanted to go back.  We spent 4 days there.  My shock came when I wanted to reserve a campground. When we go places, we like to get as close as possible plus we like our amenities, meaning full hookups of power, water and electric.  There was only one in Jackson, but it was $92 a night. WOW!!! have never paid that much before, but as they say in real estate, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.  There were places further away, but didn't want to spend our time and diesel getting there. When I was  first quoted that, I thought they were thinking  I wanted the adjacent hotel, but no, it was for the campground. For that price, we expected something very nice, but, again, no.  It was okay, but far from what we expected.
 When we left and got to our next campground in Idaho, we met some people that also had stayed there.  We all had a laugh about how bad it was for $92.  The campground in Idaho was 100% nicer and MUCH cheaper. 

I was actually a little disappointed in the park.  You know sometimes when you remember things, they are nicer than they really are?  Well, that was the case here. You can't really get close to the mountains, you just drive around in a big valley looking at them from a distance. Not nearly as spectacular as other national Parks. It  does have one unique fact. It is the only mountain range that actually grows. Every year it grows an inch.  I, of course, geocached along the way.

Beautiful Jenny Lake

This is a resort on Colter Bay, didn't expect to find this

This was a Virtual geocache. You take a picture of a certain place and log it to get credit. This is the only kind allowed in National Parks.  There are no containers that  you sign a log.



After visiting the park, we went to Teton Village, a ski area. Nice, but doesn't have the hills like our area. Very expensive place to ski. It is a big destination area with hotels, condos, restaurants and shopping

After 4 days, we started for home. Made a HUGE mistake. We bought a RV GPS this year. It is geared for RVs and tells you if a road isn't good for  it.  I looked on the map and decided it would be nice to take a different way out. The road looked good in the beginning. Our GPS told us it wasn't rated for RVs, but it looked good to us. MISTAKE !!!!!!!!   As soon as we  decided to go for it. it became steep and very curvy. Hills are rated for steepness, grade 6 is about the steepest you want to go on in an RV. This was rated as a 10,  no place  for us to turn around. Denny said it was the most stressful, scariest road that he has ever driven on. At the top, we had to stop because our transmission was overheated.

We definitely learned from now on to trust our RV GPS!!!


We were gone a month. Never have traveled in the summer,  it was a nice change since we didn't travel last winter