Good news, we are here safe in South Dakota, Hill City, a very nice RV park called Rafter-J Ranch RV Park.  THe bad news is they block me from uploading my pics to Picasa for the slideshow.  That means, if I am lucky, I can upload pics on this blog post.  If not, I'll just have to give written updates.

The drive to Hill City was uneventful, a few climbs and declines but nothing we couldn't handle.  Guess we can start going to 7 and 8% declines on our next trip!  Got stopped a couple of times for road construction where we had to be lead by a vehicle.  I guess another way the government, state in this case, can hire more workers to do something other than hold the stop/slow signs during construction projects!  Whew!

Also got stopped for a bunch of cowboys to herd a group of horses across the highway we were driving on.  Pretty cool.

Lots to do here in the Hill City area, but we are going to relax a bit at the RV park.  Have a few campfires, etc..  Drove 10 hours yesterday to get here a day earlier than planned.  The roads were nice, weather good, so we just kept driving, or at least I kept driving!

I hope I can upload a few pics on here!

Well as  you can see, only got one pic uploaded.  Will have to see if there are other wi-fi hotspots we can use to keep this blog up to date.  We are here for over a week!

The current slideshow consists of miscellaneous pics while in Jackson, bike riding, going over the Teton pass, etc.

Last day in Jackson, Wyoming.  Will definitely be coming back for a longer stay.  Golfed today at Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis CLub.  Beautiful course, well laid out with the most awesome views of the Tetons!  Played with a couple of guys from Birmingham, AL!

Dinner was Sushi at a place called Sudachi!  Amazing sushi, pretty close to the best we have ever had.  Expensive, but Linda is always worth it!  :):)

Tomorrow we pack up and head out to Hill City, SD, black hills area.  Lots to do there and then we head to spend some time with the crazy Pfeiffer's!  Major whoo hoo coming down the road.

A few pics:

The slideshow contain pics of the day we hiked in the Grand Teton National Park.  Check out the Moose pics.   Nice!

Last night after hike in the park, went for a drive after dinner up the Teton Pass.  Glad we did not try to do that with the RV!  after the pass,w e drove down Moose Wilson Road into the park to see if we could catch some animals.  We did see three caribou!  Pretty cool.  today went for a bike ride toward the park.  Then shopping, and spa day.  Then rather than make linda cook dinner, I took her out to the Calico restaurant.  Local dive near the RV park.

Tomorrow may be a relaxing day around the RV, although Linda is asking me to take her on another bike ride.  This one further into the park.  But then there is a half marathon and a cattle drive right in front of our RV park!  Don't know when we can get out of the RV park and get into the Grand Tetons.  Pretty cool park.

A few pics from last night and today.

The slideshow shows pics from the drive to Jackson.

Lots of pics driving to Jackson, Wyoming from Declo, Idaho!  Really nice drive.  No stress, no worries of steep declines, and wonderful scenery coming up from the south to Jackson along the snake river.  Before we left our RV site in Idaho, a Prevost, very expensive and high quality RV, parked next to us.  It had similar colors as ours and was driven by a little old lady.  Yep that's right, the guy was in the passenger seat as the woman parked the vehicle, 45 feet of it!  Linda, where are you when it's time to drive?

Yesterday, we arrived at our RV site, not a great RV park, right after noon.  Had to run to the bike shop and replace a tube on Linda's bike.  When we woke up and I began loading the bikes on the car for the drive to Jackson, noticed Linda's front tire was flat.  Must have picked up something on that last bike ride along the river.  Went to the visitor's center to get the lay of the land.  Met up with a nice older woman who convinced Linda to buy a can of bear spray.  I'm more worried Linda will use it on me, by accident?, while hiking versus her actually having to use it on a charging bear!  Oh well, $50 later and we are prepared!

Today we got up super early to try and catch the local animals out and about, mainly Moose!  Was unlucky in that arena, at least on the morning hike.  We missed a few opportunities to see Bear while on a 3 mile hike along Jenny's lake.  Every time I hear that name, Jenny, I can just hear Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump saying, Jenneeee!  Was a nice hike, rough terrain and a few great, great views.  The Grand Tetons are amazing and I could look at them all day long.  A few spots on the scenic driver portion were simply fantastic!

And finally it happened.  We came across a couple fo cars parked along a very narrow back road on our way out of the park.  Yep, a Moose was lounging in the creek grazing and looking amazing.  We actually got to walk down into the field to get maybe 30 yards away!  Watched for awhile and took several photos.  Should have taken a video of the action.  Did see a few mule deer out in a few fields on the drive, but the moose takes the proverbial cake!  NICE!

Will have all the pics for the last two days on a couple of slideshows starting tomorrow.  A relaxing day tomorrow as we have a bike ride planned in the morning, shopping for new hiking shoes, and a spa visit in the late afternoon.  Tonight we are going to drive the Teton Pass near sunset to see if we can catch some critters out and about!

Finally, when we arrived at our RV site and got set up, another RV, bigger than ours pulled into the spot next to us.  Two people and five poodles got out!  Yes, thats right, Linda was taking pics from inside our RV as they got out and we were amazed at the number of standard sized poodles that the couple traveled with.  Love dogs, but five in a motorhome on a trip?  Crazy!

Later,