Reflections of My Travel

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This morning we slept in a little and then went to try to see the Grand Tetons again. We were able to see a little bit more of them than yesterday, but not much. On the way back to town, we saw our first moose! It was very exciting. Apparently it is very rare to spot them and this one was out in the middle of a field all by himself feeding. Randal was then sweet enough to indulge me in a little sledding time again. Great fun. Although I had some trouble steering and ended up flying straight over a huge pile of snow a couple of times, which was a little rough on the rear. Randal was very amused. When I was no longer able to huff-n-puff my way back up the hill (especially being as it seems I am trying to get a little sick), we started to make our way around the other side of the Tetons. When we got to Driggs, ID we drove up to Grand Targhee ski resort to check out the conditions there, but since I was in greater need of rest than anything, we chose to come back to town and get a hotel and take it easy the rest of the day.

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Rest days. Walks around town in the snow, snowball fights, snowangels. Waiting to hear whether Yellowstone would open on the 18th for snowmobiles. This morning (the morning before supposed to open) they finally tell us that they would need 18 inches of snow for snowmobiles to be allowed into the park. Well, if they had told us that 3 days ago, we would have known that there was no chance of getting 18 inches and we would have been able to go on our merry way and find some skiing or snowmobiling in Colorado or something. Oh well. It has been a great trip, I just feel bad because that was actually the whole reason for the trip and I feel like they could have been more forthcoming with us. Well, we are heading homeward now. I believe we are still going to try to do Arches National Park but probably not much time for much else.

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Drive day. Since we found out that we would not be able to snowmobile Yellowstone, we started the trek for home. At Salt Lake City, we took a detour to see the huge Morman Temple. Very impressive structure. Very beautiful area in the temple square. They used lots of water in their architecture, which I feel is just about the most beautiful architectural design. The mountains were wonderful through Utah. We drove a little into the night, until we got to the beginning of Randal’s favorite scenic stretch of road. We set up camp so that we could see it all in the morning.