Jackson Hole
We arrived in town just before lunchtime with plenty of
time to sight see. This is almost exactly halfway through the trip and we
celebrated by staying in a hotel! After checking in we went out to lunch
and toured about. We also drove up to the airport and picked up a rental
SUV for the next week. We decided that it would be a good strategy to park
the motorhome in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons for a week and have another
car to tour around it.
There is a park in the center of town and each corner
has an arch above the pathway leading into it. The arches are made from elk
antlers and are a fun sight to see. They are also the centerpiece of every
tourist's family photos. We have this same picture of my sister and I when
we were here on a family motorhome trip sometime in the early '70s. There
is a Sheltie rather than a Golden in that picture.
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Jackson is a very dog-friendly town. The hotel
lets you have pets in the room, and the lunch restaurant let us have Shane
with us at the table we sat at on the deck (something California won't usually
let you do). Outside one of the stores is a stuffed Bison (yours for only $9,700). Shane froze, tried to stare it down (which is difficult to do with glass-eyed dead animals), and then barked at it until we pulled him away. When we were walking back to the hotel, we passed by a watering trough for the stagecoach horses. Shane, who we now know can smell water, trotted over to it and jumped in before we knew what he was doing. It was the perfect size for him and clearly refreshing, though probably not so much so for the horses anymore. |
Every day at 6:15pm, except Sunday of course, there's
a shootout in the middle of the street. This show has been going on for something
like 47 years now. Like the arches above, I'm pretty sure we have a picture
at home of a bad guy getting mowed down in the middle of the street with
us as smiling youngsters looking on 30 or 35 years ago. The gentleman next
to me in the picture below was the first Marshall in the shootouts, he's
in his 70s now and doesn't really have a roll in the action except to look
old and grizzly - he would have been about my age last time I saw the show.
Those are bear claws around his neck, not a tarantula.
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