Day 9B

Day 9B...

OK, so yesterday’s entry was written about midday, and then we all got a little altitude sickness. So, we took some aspirin, had some caffeine and laid down to allow our bodies to adjust.

The hotel is nice but lacks air conditioning, and some brainy fixed the windows so you can only push them up maybe 6 inches or so. Therefore, it was STIFLING last night, even though it was only 50 degrees outside or so.

We went out to look at the stars, and met a nice couple from Alabama. After he established we were both Southerners, he said to me, I think they got stars up here we ain’t got down there. He was a real good ‘ol boy and he rooted for the Crimson Tide.

What we forgot about was Old Faithful while we were laying outside, and he decided to go off while we were there. We tried to get pictures, but it was just too dark.

I had looked everywhere for somewhere to use the internet, and they are very proud here that they don’t offer this service to guests. So, it was about to be the first night of no blogging, but then we met our new friend Robert at the front desk. He told me that they had wifi in the employee quarters and where I should park to get access (and what the password was). So we drove quietly to the employee quarters and he was right on. So there was a blog entry after all.

However, it probably was not my best effort, as I think I forgot a couple of things, left a couple of things out (like Uncle Dave's nickname). We usually all edit it together as we are about to post it, but last night we were nervous. People kept looking at us with our laptop in the van. One guy in particular kept looking our way and we thought we were about to get busted. So we just posted the rough draft and headed along our merry way. We’ll fix the mistakes tonight.

We have had a quiet morning, and we are going to see Yellowstone and drive through Grand Teton National Park today. Our goal is to make it somewhere into Southern Wyoming by nightfall. We have many mountains to cross before we get there. Then it’s on to the mountains of Colorado.