I keep forgetting about the time difference. So, Wyoming is awesome. Totally beautiful. Driving through the mountains between Cheyenne and Rock Springs (where the highway diverts north and runs parallel to the mountains for a while), there's all these snow gates lining the mountains like a herculean Cristo art project. The Grand Tetons are gorgeous, giant vistas everywhere. Yellowstone is like a tweaked-up volcanic version of Letchworth, except it's the size of all of Western NY. Leaving Jackson Hole, a town similar to Perinton, NY, except nestled in the Rocky Mountains and a couple hundred miles from anywhere, I'm almost immediately confronted by jaw-dropping natural beauty. The day starts with hail, turns to snow. As I exited town, I drove past this huge mountain lake:
After the lake, I go up a hill and onto this vast plateau: The Grand Tetons: immense vistas in every direction, mountains and giant forrests everywhere:
after the plateau, there's this tree-lined highway which progresses through a series of ups and downs. A side note, while the weather in southern WY was warmer and green, it's colder and there's still lots of snow here.
A ranger station and $25 later, now officially in the Grand Teton National Parkgrounds. The $25 included the entry to (and subsequent exit from) Yellowstone. now we'll skip ahead. more jawdropping beauty. blah blah blah. ok, Yellowstone is very similar to letchworth, except things are, or have recently been blowing up, which is pretty badass. Still lots of snow, and it is now snowing pretty hard.
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