May 16, 2010

We are staying in Jackson Hole for a few day and today headed back up to Yellowstone. We took a different route (Moose Junction) through Grand Teton National Park and saw a Moose sitting right on the edge of the road. We stopped at the Jackson Lake Dam. We wanted to visit the Jackson Lake Lodge but it was not open yet as we found out most of the lodges are not opening till the end of May. The ride was a little chilly in the 50's, all the snow still on the ground didn't help.

Our goal was Canyon Village but turned out it was a little too far if we were going to get back to the hotel at a decent hour. We got a later start today and we had to stop as see if we could get a new head set for Ken as his stopped working and now we can't communicate while riding (maybe he just put me on mute). The motorcycle rental shop didn't have headsets so we will try to get a new one mailed out.

We did stop for lunch at Lake Village and met some real nice people while eating. Hopefully we will make it back up to Yellowstone to see what they call the "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone". Only the the lower and upper falls at Canyon Village were open the rest of the road up to the Northeast Entrance is still closed.

FACTOID: Congress established Yellowstone as the world's first national park in 1872.