My first WorldCon, etc., #4
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mmegaeraMonday morning we said a reluctant good-bye to the Park, heading south towards Denver by way of Grand Teton National Park (US Hwy 287 from the Park to Rawlins, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coalboy). On the way we stopped at Isa Lake on the Continental Divide (we crossed the Divide six times between the Park and Denver) and took pictures of waterlilies, and at Lewis Falls, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Then we left the Park, and entered Grand Teton, and spent most of the morning stopping and staring at and photographing the mountains. I won’t make the obvious comment wondering how anyone could possibly think those jagged mountains look like breasts, but really. We got caught in some road construction over Togwotee Pass, and made a lovely discovery in Dubois, Wyoming, of a museum devoted to the bighorn sheep (http://www.bighorn.org). It made a pleasant and educational stop. After Dubois the land leveled out and the soil turned red and it looked rather like Utah. Then we came out onto the plains, and the rest of the day was a slog to get to Rawlins, Wyoming on I-80. BTW, I highly disrecommend the local equivalent of a Dairy Queen (I can’t remember its exact name) in Lander, Wyoming. Lousy food, and even worse service.
Rawlins was the first time we’d had an ensuite bathroom since Livingston, which pleased M very much [g] (I was more thrilled with the overabundance of pillows – four per bed – the pillows in the cabins at Old Faithful are terrible). We did some grocery shopping, and pretty much crashed and burned.
The next day we made the half-day drive to Denver (I-80 to Laramie, the US 287 cutoff to Fort Collins, I-25 to Denver), stopping along the way in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I had gone to Colorado State University in 1979 and 1987 (long story, which I won’t get into here). It was the first time I’d been back to that part of the country since 1987, and I made a point of finding the campus and looking for the places I’d lived and so forth. Except that the dorm I lived in in 1979 is no longer. All the other dorms are still there, but they’d torn down Ellis Hall and were in the process of building something new there. Which was rather disappointing. But it was still fun to see the campus again.
After that we tootled one more hour into Denver – next post.
Isa Lake on the Continental Divide with waterlilies
Lewis Falls
The Tetons
coalboy). On the way we stopped at Isa Lake on the Continental Divide (we crossed the Divide six times between the Park and Denver) and took pictures of waterlilies, and at Lewis Falls, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Then we left the Park, and entered Grand Teton, and spent most of the morning stopping and staring at and photographing the mountains. I won’t make the obvious comment wondering how anyone could possibly think those jagged mountains look like breasts, but really. We got caught in some road construction over Togwotee Pass, and made a lovely discovery in Dubois, Wyoming, of a museum devoted to the bighorn sheep (http://www.bighorn.org). It made a pleasant and educational stop. After Dubois the land leveled out and the soil turned red and it looked rather like Utah. Then we came out onto the plains, and the rest of the day was a slog to get to Rawlins, Wyoming on I-80. BTW, I highly disrecommend the local equivalent of a Dairy Queen (I can’t remember its exact name) in Lander, Wyoming. Lousy food, and even worse service. Rawlins was the first time we’d had an ensuite bathroom since Livingston, which pleased M very much [g] (I was more thrilled with the overabundance of pillows – four per bed – the pillows in the cabins at Old Faithful are terrible). We did some grocery shopping, and pretty much crashed and burned.
The next day we made the half-day drive to Denver (I-80 to Laramie, the US 287 cutoff to Fort Collins, I-25 to Denver), stopping along the way in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I had gone to Colorado State University in 1979 and 1987 (long story, which I won’t get into here). It was the first time I’d been back to that part of the country since 1987, and I made a point of finding the campus and looking for the places I’d lived and so forth. Except that the dorm I lived in in 1979 is no longer. All the other dorms are still there, but they’d torn down Ellis Hall and were in the process of building something new there. Which was rather disappointing. But it was still fun to see the campus again.
After that we tootled one more hour into Denver – next post.
Isa Lake on the Continental Divide with waterlilies
Lewis Falls
The Tetons
