Dubois, WY

Dubois is a fun little one street town with about 10 saloons (that's what they call them in WY not bars) and lots of arts and crafts specialty shops.  Everyone has a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and they have the biggest belt buckles I've ever seen.  The people are very friendly and everyone knows everyone but they make you feel at home so we had a great time here. 

                                                 Dubois, the one street town.

Most of the houses and even the churches are built with logs - very rustic and beautiful.

This is a park we went to down town (no relation - I don't think) but the walkway follows the Wind River and makes for a nice walk.

We met (Al and his wife Kathy) a friend of Will's that he worked with when he had jobs in Dubois and around the area and they invited us up to their beautiful log cabin - I think it was on the highest mountain in WY and it had the smallest roads I've ever seen to get up there - but what a site when we got there.  I also saw my first Picketpen's - had never even heard of them - but they are really funny little animals. Kathy had about 50 of them down in her large beautiful flower/bird/picketpen area.  But I think I'll take my squirrels and chipmunks. 

We went to lunch at a place (saloon) called Cripple Creek and besides being just beautifully constructed it had really great food and I think they also had to reorder Coors Light after we left. lol

Then it was Rodeo time - talk about cowboys - woo hoo - and I guess they had a few cowgirls too.  

             This little girl did barrel racing and was really good - came in second.

                                                   They even had the clowns.

                                      As you can see he didn't stay on long!

                                  And then this guy was going sideways! lol

               And this little guy was on a little bull and he didn't stay on long either.

And then there's the Big Horn Sheep the little kids ride - all they hold onto is the horns -as you can see I've already lost the rider - he wasn't on long  - but look at those horns! 

This is back at the rv park - the Canadian geese were having a hard time getting around with the water going so swiftly. If was fun watching them try to swim up river - but they all made it.  (P.S. Mike, Will took these geese pictures for you)

                 I think he was the leader - looks like he was even posing!  lol

later  xoxo

Nampa, Idaho to Dubois, WY

I knew we'd be going up and down, over and around some mountains between Idaho and Wyoming but wow these are huge mountains and then add the SNOW - talk about an adventure - and welcome to Wyoming! lol

            Going thru downtown Jackson Hole City Square and the Elk Antler Arch

    
                      The Tetons were beautiful even if they were cloud covered.

                  And then we started over Togwotee Pass and came upon this!!

            Finally, coming into Dubois - that is our RV Park entrance in the distance.

Big beautiful cotton trees all over the park - we were lucky in that it will be another several weeks before the cotton starts flying.

   Our site was huge and situated between beautiful trees and facing the Wind River.

Our site of the Wind River. It kept coming up each day because of all the snow melt off up in the mountains.

    And my new friend - Bambi - she came every day and ate out of the bird feeder.  They knew me well at the store where I bought the bird seed. 

       She would get right up to the fence and jump it - so graceful - you know like me! lol

later  xoxo 

Visit to my Mom's and Sis Elizabeth's in Nampa, Idaho



Finally made it to Idaho (June 4th) to visit my Mom and my Sis Elizabeth and her family.  Had a great 2 weeks - we did some shopping, lots of good eating, went on a wine tour, took a tour of Boise and did I say lots of eating!   Also got my Sis hooked on my downfall - big green olives stuffed with delicious bleu cheese! Yummy!

 At the airport in Nampa they have this great little restaurant - "Starvin' Marvin's".  We went there for breakfast several times - from the restaurant you can see the runway and can watch the planes come and go.  They also have a Air Museum which we went to.  We've been to many air museum's but this one was very nice and I know one of us would of spent a week in there reading all the booklets of the personal experiences of the servicemen in the war and the background on all the planes.  Here's a few of those pictures.

This was on the wall in Starvin' Marvin's - some in our group found it humorous! lol

 
We woke up one morning and this is what we saw in the sky - have never seen clouds like this. 

Then after the rain storm this is what came out - a double rainbow - talk about beautiful .

P.S. We are now looking for that pot of gold!

later  xoxo