Wed, Jan 26
01.27.05
We woke up around 7:30 or 8:00 anyway, and started planning the day. Brenda learned the Post Office has messed up the mail delivery, so she worked on resolving that. Harlan called the 4 local chiropractors, and learned that 2 wanted relatively large fees for the initial visit, a third was not seeing anybody new, and the 4th was real reasonable about everything. A 2:30pm visit was scheduled. Harlan made some calls and discovered that his camera was under warranty, and would be repaired free if it was shipped to NJ and we waited a couple of weeks time for the work to be done. As the camera body itself was only about $100 or so, we decided it would be worth going to the only camera shop in town and looking for a replacement. Harlan headed over there while Brenda did what she likes best, organizing receipts. Harlans 15 minutes at the camera place probably turned into a half hour or so, as they didnt have the same camera model. The choice was between a used $100 body, and a new body with 2 new lenses (including a 75-300mm lens) for about $600 or so. As it was becoming clear that a lens with better telephoto would be a Good Thing, and since the camera shop only had lenses that went to 200mm otherwise and even then the price of the body and the new lens would be just over $500, the new camera was purchased. Oh, the lady at the camera shop said she went out early this morning to shoot the Tetons just like we wanted to do, and just after sunrise some clouds came in and hazed over the sun just enough to mess up the light. She said it was a poor morning for the photo shoot.
Now to find a bigger camera bag Brenda was also real unhappy with the layer of dirt on the car, so we learned the location of the car wash and headed over to it and K-Mart (to look for a camera bag). The car wash was Crowded, so we just headed over to K-Mart where a real friendly and helpful guy in their camera department showed us the bags. All of them were for digital cameras (small). We next tried Staples, which also had a poor selection. We then tried to wash the car again, but it was still way too crowded.
We saw the chiropractor, who turned out to be the first chiropractor to set up shop in Jackson. He was pretty good, and suggested that I come back again tomorrow so we could spend the entire session working on my carpal tunnel problems. Brenda really liked him.
After visiting the chiropractor we tried to get the car washed again, and the lines were still way too long. We visited a bison and elk meat and jerky store where we learned that their jerky currently uses additives that we dont want, and most of their meats are around $50/pound. Brenda picked up some lip balm, hand salve, and facial scrub for market research purposes, and on the way back to dinner the 2nd car wash place had a tolerable wait. Our original dinner restaurant had not yet opened, and since we hadnt eaten yet we went to Bubbas BBQ where Brenda had OK halibut and Harlan had an OK combo platter (pulled pork, brisket, ribs, and chicken). After dinner we came back to the hotel and wrote up 5 days of log entries, messed with the new camera, and generally organized and relaxed. Oh, the bed in this room is really comfortable.