DAY 45: Bone-Chillin' Bear Day.......

DAY 45:  Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
TEMP:  Low:  A Bone Chilling 43 Degrees Outside / 53 Degrees Inside RV / High: 81 Degrees

Our first glimpse of the Tetons today.....

Well folks, I'm going to probably make a lot of you really MAD when I tell you that this morning, when we woke up, the temperature outside was 43 bone chilling degrees!  But if it makes you feel any better, I will tell you that the "inside" temperature in the RV was 53 BONE CHILLIN' DEGREES!  Yep, for the first time on this trip, we decided to sleep with the windows open.......BURRRRRRRRR......Even the pets were hunkered under the covers shivering......

But before we knew it, it started warming up nicely to a high of 81 degrees; which; prepare to choke;  they consider dreadfully and unseasonaly hot around here.  I simply didn't want to hear their belly-aching.....they have NO idea what HOT is........Come live in "Hot as Hades" Texas for awhile, buddy......

Before we knew there were 2 more construction zones...

Anyway, our first task of the day was to hunt out a pharmacy in town.  Chuck had one more day left on one of his meds, which was out of refills, and we couldn't find a pharmacy anywhere.  Turns out, the "closest" pharmacy is 85 miles away....ONE WAY.....yep, thats right.....85 MILES....thats 15 miles short of 100 miles.....35 miles further than 50 miles.....a LONG way to go for a prescription.  I even tried hitting up the local dentist to refill his script, to no avail.

Sign At Construction Site.....

So off to Jackson Hole we went.....Lucky for us, the 85 miles is scenic.....UNlucky for us, we sat in three different forms of road construtction for 1/2 an hour.  But once we shed ourselves of the bulldozers, we were viewing scenery that is usually reserved only for our dreams......Drop dead gorgeous mountains, streams and rivers running everywhere; horses grazing in the pastures under this magnificant backdrop....it was amazing.

Black Bear

At one point, we saw a guy in his pickup pulled over taking pictures of something, so we pulled in behind him and asked what he was seeing.....turns out, it was a black Mamma bear and her cubs....So, of course, I had to get in on the action and started snapping pictures of anything and everything hoping to get at least one shot of the bear.....not a great shot, I know.....but the best of the 78 photos I took!

At one point, I turned around and there had to be 30 cars piled up on the roadway behind me; people in swimsuits, fishing attire; old people, young people, kids, dogs.......it was like a huge family reunion where you didn't know anyone.  Every time the bear moved, this crowd of people moved with it....CRAZY unrelated relatives of mine!!!

But we made it back the 85 miles to home; through the 30 minute road construction again; through the indescribable scenery, to a dog named Murphy that needed to pee worse than a woman on water pills.

And this is what "Home-Sweet-Home-On-Wheels" looks like from our campsite.....

Just beautiful.........

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

~Lao Tzu