9/06/08

   I slept great again, thank goodness for sleeping pills.   We went to the Teton Steak house for breakfast.  They had a breakfast buffet which was good, great service and dark coffee.  Yummy and the price was great.  Then off to the Tetons for more pictures.  They are just stunning.  Neither camera, actually photographer could do them justice. 








  See the glacier on the mountain.


We drove to the lakes and passed streams were people were fly fishing again.







 I stopped to get pictures and sat on this old bridge to get a better shot.  Well it turned out to be a dirty bridge and I got grease all over my pants.   But it was worth it as I think the shot looks pretty. 



   We did some hiking but not much as we still had a long way to go.  The every present warning about grizzle bears makes you nervous also but it must not make the regulars nervous as there were many people backpacking.  I wish we had more times.








 

 






Then we started on for the next part of our day.  We always like traveling by the old highways instead of interstate.



 We chose wisely today.  We decided to take the old Flaming Gorge highway.   HWY 43, 44 and then 191. Climbing up and down mountains.  We saw numerous deer.  Very pretty country.  Cattle on steep mountain corners.  Rick has this man thing of checking his watches altimeter at every mountain top.  Finally he gets to use this function on this watch.  Here we are going around 15 steep hairpin turns on the tops of mountains with 7800 ft drops and he's checking his watch to see if it the same as on the sign.  Yikes.  Keep your eyes on the road I grip.  Who cares how far we have to fall if you drive off the edge.  It still scares me on those turns.  One steep hill was a 8.5 downhill grade with hairpin turns.  2 semi' cautiously making their way behind us. One the signs along side the road it says, only 6 more left, only 5 more left.... Ears popping every few thousand feet.


  But what a beautiful road.  Flaming Gorge with its red canyon walls and sapphire blue water.   At the top of a mountain we stopped at the lookout to get a couple of pictures.


 


Rick is as happy as a lark standing at the edge of the world.






  Have I mentioned before this is a beautiful country?

    Tonight we only made it to Vernal, Utah  Those mountain roads take forever to drive.  The downtown is lovely with large baskets of petunia lining the entire main street.  We got a so so room and had a so so meal and then hit the hay.  We had hoped to make Steamboat Springs but were about 150 miles short.  Still it was such a lovely day it didn't matter.  We are slowly working our way back to home.

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