Tetons, July 2026

 

In late June we took a three week trip, mini vacation for us in a sense, which ended with a visit to the Tetons (before we moved on to Salt Lake City and then back to the Sacramento Area.  So we left Henry's Lake, and drove to a place called, "The Big Eddy"

The Big Eddy is BLM land, and can handle a good dozen or more campers.  This is our first (and last) time there, and there were 3-4 tents, about 5 RV's, and a car or two which had people camping in them.  The road leading to the Big Eddy is not smooth...it was wet, had a number of pot holes, and just a road that Marcia has a hard time going on (effects of MS.)  We have been on worse...but she likes better than this.  The other thing is that the next morning, I had to find a car wash in Driggs to clean off all the mud that was along our running board, tire wells, sides of the van, etc.

The first picture shows the BLM area with the Tetons in the distance.  The afternoon we arrived at the Big Eddy, the Tetons were covered with clouds...so this was taken the next morning as we were leaving.  Below is a camera close up of the west side of the Tetons.

The ride from Driggs to Teton National Park is a good hour, and is a lovely drive.  As you get closer to Jackson Hole, the traffic gets pretty busy.  First on our list was find a campground to empty our waste tanks.  We KNOW we can go 8 days, but I prefer, while on the road, to empty on the 5th or 6th day, just to be sure we don't "spill over".  We choose Gros Ventre Campground, the easiest access campground between Jackson and Tetons NP.  We were blessed with this view...

 We have only seen a few Moose in all of our travels.  But we never saw this...

 ...a Mama Moose nursing a baby Moose.  How cool is that????

What follows next are various pictures of the Tetons

 

After the Tetons, we spent 2 days and 1 night in Salt Lake City and headed to the Sacramento area.  It was July 3rd when we headed back, stayed in the Wendover area, then proceeded to Arny and Sandy's house...arriving on the afternoon of July 4th.  Gave Indy her Thunder Wunder to keep her calm, and she made it through the BAMS and BANGS of the 4th of July...the SIXTH 4th of July that we had with our little girl who came into our lives on July 4, 2020.  Hence, the name Indy...short for Independence.

Next...blog about my eye glasses experience. 

 

 

6 Days, 5 Nights

YES, we are HOME in Florida!  Give me a few days to unpack, acclimate back to summer high temps and normal high humidity (it is midnight and currently 80 degrees with 90% humidity), and I will write a few blogs to fill in some huge gaps...including the trip back home.

Amazingly, we left Sacramento Area Sunday morning.  Camped (free BLM land) the first night outside Ely Nevada where temps were comfortable...but the Ward Fire was blazing away just outside of Ely.  I will share those dramatic pictures another day...   The second night we stopped in Fruita Colorado where again, night time temps were comfortable.  The third night we camped at Quinter Kansas (city park, free) where surprisingly, the temps were very comfortable, and our hamburgers from the DQ (Dairy Queen) were very very good.  The fourth night we stopped at the Cracker Barrel in Alma Arkansas, just outside of Fort Smith, where we enjoyed a nice dinner with family, and suffered through our first night of high temps and humidity. Our last night we stopped at Cracker Barrel in Hattiesburg Mississippi after stopping in Pine Bluff (for those who forgot or did not know, I lived in Pine Bluff for nearly 23 years and was the Library Director there for most of those years) to visit with our good friend Jana who worked at the Library for much of my tenure.  After a dinner that she cooked, we headed for a rest area in southeast Arkansas, but decided to continue, despite nightfall, to Magee Mississippi to sleep in a Walmart parking lot...but much to our surprise, they don't allow overnight parking at this Walmart (despite what RVParky says), so we continued on to the Cracker Barrel in Hattiesburg where it was midnight when we stopped for another muggy, hot night.  Our sixth night was going to be in Tallahassee, but we decided that since we got to Florida early enough, we would continue to drive to our Condo (Home) and get some comfortable sleep.  This trip was the quickest we had ever done between Sacramento and Florida.

Yes, I owe blogs dealing with...

Mom

Addie's Birthday

Maintenance on Campervan

Indy's friends

Trip home

New Glasses

???  (anything else I think of)