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.

 

7/18/1991 - Thursday

John:  After a pancake and bacon breakfast, we left Carp Lake.  On the 20 mile dirt road out, we saw a grouse-type bird walk across the road... then about three babies went across.  Not too much excitement after that.  We got some groceries and gassed up the truck in Prince George.  Tried to go on a tour of two different pulp mills, but they were booked up until the next day at one and next Monday at the other one.  Can’t believe the big rush on pulp mill tours!  We are camped at Beaverview Campground in McBride, BC on the Fraser River... (with the Canadian Northern Mainline Railroad off in the distance, but still within ear shot of their whistle...).  We drove 239 miles today.

ODOM:  30076

Note:  The nights are getting to be a little more normal now.  It gets dark about 10:30... don’t really know when the sun comes up.