Brenda and Harlan's Trip Blog

Harlan woke up a bit before Brenda but she got going sooner. We planned to have breakfast and be on the way to the National Elk Reserve just before 10am, but we skipped breakfast and got to the reserve a little after 10am. It was much warmer today then yesterday, and it snowed a bit overnight (better sleigh riding). Some busloads of schoolkids got there before us, so we didn’t get our sleigh ride going until just after 11am. This blew Harlan’s 3rd chiro appointment out of the water. The sleigh ride was very nice – the first stop was at a tree by a little river where a bald eagle was looking for lunch – we got a variety of pictures (video, film, and digital). We then rode into a herd of elk and got more pictures. On the way back we stopped near a coyote who was hunting for his lunch under the snow – Brenda got some nice video of his hunt.

The sleigh ride was really nice! We should have pictures up soon (Harlan reorganized the photo album tonight, and added a bunch of the recently developed and digitized 35mm film).

We checked out of the hotel around 1pm, and went to Cadillac’s for lunch again. Brenda had more pumpkin bacon chowder, and Harlan had a bison burger. Brenda was getting concerned that her reputation for sharing desserts was dwindling so she only had 2 small bites of each of the desserts Harlan ordered. He ordered 2 desserts to assure himself of “getting some”. Brenda had one bite of each dessert (pumpkin cheesecake and tiramisu), which left Harlan with about 2/3 of each dessert to finish.

We headed out toward Buffalo via Rt. 287 and north of Jackson airport we tried to look for a geocache, but it was a good mile up a snow-closed road and we didn’t feel like cross-country skiing to see if we could find it under the snow. The sky was clearing, however, and we got more pictures of the Teton range.

The trip toward Buffalo took us over the continental divide again, and the geology and general terrain changed several times. Very pretty.

As we were on undivided roads and it was getting dark, we decided to stay in Riverton and drive to Gillette tomorrow.

Gary Gerber called this evening and provided wonderful input for our trip tomorrow. Thanks Gary!!!!

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