USA Rest day

Tuesday 27^th July 2010

Chill out day in Jackson... on the bikes to do the tour of Jackson Hole.

Alan is having withdrawals by not being on a bike, so he brings out his Ural (Russian motorcycle) with Kristy in the side car - it reminded me of the film The Great Escape as they ride down the road.

We head for the mountains on a road that goes through an Elk refuge centre where there are anything up to 10,000 Elks in the winter season, we ride up a twisty gravel road and the scenery again is just beautiful, clear skies and a postcard view. We stop at a monument for 9 people that were killed when an Air Force 1 Transport Support aircraft hit the top of the mountain on the 17^th August 1996, Alan having just been involved with the security for President Bill Clinton was called upon to organise the search and rescue operation. From there we ride to Kelly a quaint little town on the outskirts of Jackson where Alan & Kristy’s daughter Alex went to school. We then head out to Gros Ventre where the largest earth slide recorded occurred in 1925. where half of the mountain slid into the river and caused a dam. We then proceed further into the valley where we come across a muffler in the middle of the road........oh no, not again...Alan & Kristy do a u-turn to come back to retrieve it. Bugger me the bolt had sheared through, so the two popular machanics try to fix it on the side of the road. They had to find another bolt, fortunately Vic found one on the BMW back rest which fitted. Alan also burnt his arm trying to fit the bloody thing on. Now all things are nice and tight we are off again. The red hills and snow capped peaks are again too hard to describe sufficiently in words.

We set off to a village called Moose where we had lunch in a chuck wagon and some huckleberry ice cream - just to die for.

On this trip we saw a coyote, chislers, bison and a moose with two calves, not to mention the deer that comes into the backyard of the house at dinner time each night.

Went a bike shop where Vic bought some cool (blue and white) gloves then dropped Kristy off in town to bring the Mustang home ready for tomorrows ride. I jumped into the sidecar of the Ural and set off up more twisties to a resort above town... It was a blast and of course Vic had a great time without me on the back.....Now dinner is ready more red wine - yes life is very, very good. Vic is just finishing some beaut apple pie and Ice cream 

Off to Yellowstone tomorrow .