The afternoon in Jackson Hole was relaxing as the days event was only 200+ km. So we got there early. Allowed us to do some house keeping and have a look around this famous town/city.
It was a sunny day but cool being elevated and really tourist busy. Lots of eateries and liquor outlets, bars and…T-shirt shops. Lots of T-shirt shops.
The cowboy bar where the stools at made of horse saddles to sit astride on at the bar. Novel.
We made our own arrangements for diner. It is cowboy country here. Fishing and a hunting paradise.
Day 17. We were allocated a 7.01am start. Leader of the pack for the day. 546 km’s of which 150ks were on gravel.
Stephen had not had a good nights sleep and wasn’t feeling 100%. We decided that driving that distance and much of it on gravel and dusty roads was not a wise thing to do.
So we chose to abandon this days event. Not an easy decisions but it would cut out approx 4 hours driving and enable a sleep catch up in Herber city.
The drive on the motorways and highways of course , was uneventful through the vast featureless countryside. Mainly high country desert. Long, long we’ll paved roads. Had a coffee stop at some out-lying log cabin tea house in Cherry creek. We were told there that this was very much bear and fox country. Bears were hunted as their population was exploding. They killed and ate livestock and ruined fruit trees and agriculture sticks. The hunters here shoot/kill and eat them!! Really. We didn’t see any live bears at all during the ride. Or anywhere else.
At midday we stopped at “Cheyenne.”You know. The place that was famous in novels and movies about the early American settler days. they made a good grilled cheese sandwich and coffee there too.
Below some shots of the countryside.
So tomorrow’s day 18 will take us to Moab. It’s a 443km event. three regularity’s on dirt/gravel roads, of course.
gravel travel 