Puskas FamilyAlaska Vacation: Jackson Hole WY

Friday, July 29, 2011

7/29/1991 - Monday

John: We slept in this morning and then had pancakes and bacon outside for breakfast. We renewed our same camp spot. We went into Jackson Hole and went to all the shops. We ate lunch at the Cadillac Grille. Pretty nice place and good food. Around mid-afternoon we got some groceries and went back to our camp spot. We decided to check out the river that runs a ways back of our spot. The kids had fun in a very shallow off shoot of the river. They caught tiny salamanders. There was a nice deep spot on the river which I tried to swim in... but the current was too swift. We caught some rays for a while, then walked back to our spot. We ate a late supper so it was too late and weather getting too bad to have a fire. We stashed the wood we cut up into our roof carrier for some other night’s fire. (The roof carrier is really falling apart but I think it will make it home.) The nights now are back to normal and that now seems a little bit strange to us. Oh well, guess we’ll get used to it again along with getting re-acclimated to the altitude. We only drove 27 miles today... into Jackson Hole and back.

ODOM: 31462

Karen, Susan & Kari

at the Jackson Hole Town Square

Susan & Kari playing in the river.

Kari & Susan in their swimsuits in the river.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

7/28/1991 - Sunday

John: we took our time this morning and ate our breakfast outside. I also caught up in our journal. It’s kind of a bummer, as today we started our seventh week (which is our last week). We headed out at 10:00 AM and stopped at a few more geysers on the way out of Yellowstone. We drove south to Teton Nat’l Park and we saw an antelope... the Grand Teton Mountains are very majestic. Before we left Yellowstone, we stopped at a visitor’s center in Grant Village and saw an excellent exhibit on bears. We are camped just outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at a campground called “Gros Venture” within Teton Nat’l Park. As I write, our camp neighbor came over and told us there were two huge bull moose grazing where I got firewood just a couple of hours ago... soooo, I grabbed my camera and we all headed into the woods cautiously towards the spot where they were. Then we saw one of them! He was big, with a large velvet rack. He was lying down in an old stream bead... so you couldn’t see him until you got right on top of him. I got a little closer and got some more pictures of him... I didn’t know where the second moose was, so I took my last picture of the moose before he got up and before the second moose showed up... pretty exciting!! (Sure hope the pictures come out) There a lot of moose scat all around here... even in our camp spot. Maybe we’ll see more moose right in our camp spot in the morning! We drove 132 miles today.

ODOM: 31435