Jackson Hole - yee haa

A very different day's driving today - after 450 miles of desert yesterday, we only had 250 miles to cover to reach Jackson Hole, Wyoming but the scenery could not have been more different !!

Twin Falls (so called because of the waterfalls which we couldn't see anywhere) is built around Snake River Canyon which is very beautiful (and famous for having Evel Knievel jump it on a motorcycle in 1974). Last night, we ate at the Canyon Crest restaurant which has an amazing view (apologies but I forgot the camera) and the food was actually very good considering we were in the middle of nowhere. We all overslept and missed breakfast, couldn't face a "flying pig bar-b-que" or "drive-thru taco" so lunch was, once again, some peanuts, crisps and water - real gourmet stuff.

This is usually just a side line for me...

But the drive was incredible....once you leave the desert part of Idaho (close to the Nevada border), the weather changes a little and the scenery becomes much greener. Then as you head north towards Wyoming, the landscape transforms and you drive through lush, verdant rolling hills with a backdrop of snowcapped mountains (I'm really starting to sound poetic, innit ?)

The roads are single lane so the drive took over four hours but that didn't seem to matter too much. We are staying at a hotel called the Rusty Parrot in Jackson Hole - very small but with a good restaurant. The manager, Ben, has a bit of an attitude problem - he claimed that their restaurant was full this evening - but after I had shook him warmly by the throat and explained who he was dealing with, he magically found a table. The hotel itself is somewhat pretentious, considering it is in a cowboy town - no doors on the bathrooms; open kitchen to the dining room etc....but the food was pretty good.

Compare the video above to the one from Nevada, yesterday...

We are still getting a lot of emails from all over...Robert from Santa Barbara saw the video from yesterday of the boys in the car, watching their DVD, and commented :-

Don't know what drugs you're giving the boys sitting in the back seat so nicely and looking like they are reliving your days from the sixties - high on something... Please post me the name of the medication for my next road trip. Hopefully you've got enough to give the wife some.

But, Louis & Fran are actually looking forward to accommodating us when we reach Greenwich, Connecticut...

And the Berricks are so looking forward to your 3 pissed boys and suitcases full of dirty laundry....REALLY, we mean it! Keep on truckin and we admire your American spirit!!!

Go figure !!!

"I'm not the one stuck in the back of a car 8 hours a day so who would you say is stuffed ??"