Grand Teton National Park, Again!

We left Idaho Falls at 9:30 a.m. and headed for Grand Teton National Park
As we drove into Jackson Hole, memories of our earlier visit in July 2010 flooded back. Our destination was Gros Ventre, the campground we stayed at on our first visit. It’s just north of Jackson, at the southeastern end of the park. We arrived before 1:00 p.m., and our first task was to fill the fresh water tank. For some reason this took a very long time, so it was almost 2:00 p.m. when we drove in to site #72 in Loop A.

Unfortunately we weren’t able to get into that site after much maneuvering. This campground, like most in the national parks, was built in the mid-twentieth century, when campers were much smaller. We moved on to site #88 and settled in finally at 4:00 p.m.

As we were pulling in, a man approached and commented on the Majestic. It turned out that he and his wife are fellow winter Texans who stay at Bentsen Palm Village—and on the same loop as we do. They had seen the show model when it was at Retama last January. Howard and his wife Karen are workkampers at Grand Teton N.P. Small world.

Somehow in the shuffle we missed lunch, so we decided on an early dinner. First we ate a salad and split a beer while checking out the literature we picked up at the office. We decided to go to the North Grille for dinner. It’s in the clubhouse of the golf course, and is the nearest restaurant to the campground. The dinner menu was a bit more formal than we anticipated, but the sesame crusted salmon with cappelini was delicious, and the views from the patio were lovely. The haze mostly obscured the mountains, but we’re hoping that the air will be clearer tomorrow.

[photos later]

On our way into the park we had noticed two Lazy Daze RV’s parked in the same two spots as we recalled seeing some similar Lazy Dazes when we were here two years ago. On our walk tonight we stopped to chat with a couple from one of them who were just heading out to take their two poodles for a walk. When we asked, they said that they were part of a group of Lazy Daze owners who just love the park and like those spots. They fit well and have a great view. These are not the same folks we saw earlier, but one of them will be in the park next week and the other is coming in later.

Regular folowers of this blog may have noticed that it was not being regularly published while we were in the national park. That's because the Verizon signal in our campground and in most of the park is very weak. We did have enough internet connection to send and receive emails, but it was VERY slow--around 33 Kbps usually. That's what you may remember from the old dial-up days.