Yellowstone! – Day Four Monday August 23, 1999

This was a long, long day! We travelled from West Yellowstone, Mt. to Jackson, Wy.

First, we had unfinished business: We finally stopped at the Lower, Mid and West Thumb Geyser Basins.

Once past these last stops, we headed directly to the Grand Teton National Park. As we got our first glimpse of the Tetons over Jackson Lake, everyone insisted that we stop and take pictures.

They truly are breathtaking mountains, but would the view keep everyone occupied for three days. Somehow I doubted it.

We got into Jackson, Wy by 4:00PM and checked into our hotel. Chu-Wan and I went walking around the town and picked up some waterproof disposable cameras for tomorrow.

Jackson is a mess. It’s now a lot like Sedona, Az: hordes of tourists, jamming the itty-bitty streets, which are lined with mall shops and the occasional artist’s gallery. Another nice town destroyed by too-many humans. Every fourth or fifth shop is a realtor, and the cheapest priced two-bedroom home we could find listed for $600,000. Thanks, but no thanks.

Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Kiki managed to take a tumble and scrap up her knee on the asphalt. Although she was almost a teenager she had apparently never had a cut or srape in her life. This lead to a great deal of hysterics, culminating with my father-in-law applying iodine to the wound in a less-than-merciful fashion.

The hotel had charcoal grills so we bought hotdogs at Albertson’s and cooked them for dinner. The weather was perfect, but the mosquitoes were out in squadrons.

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