The riding in the Rocky Mountain National Park was just fantastic. Such beautiful scenery, the great winding roads we had to enjoy. We cooked hobo dinners over an open campfire the first night. The fire was a little hard to keep going due to the high altitude, but we managed to get dinner anyway. It would have been nice to have the space to carry a Dutch Oven, though.

On our way toward the visitors center at the top (over 11,000 Ft), we stopped to take a short hike on a trail leading to some snow that was still laying on the mountainside. It was great fun to have a snowball fight in the last week of July!!

We hung out for a bit at the visitor’s center, the headed around the other side of the park. riding through there was simply awesome! It's hard to put it into words.

Back at our campsite, we had a visit from a neighboring deer. He was no more that 30 of 40 feet from where we had out tents setup. It’s so awesome to be able to enjoy a place like that.

When it was time to leave Rocky Mountain National Park, we decided to head almost straight north - toward Wyoming and Grand Teton National park.

The ride through southern Wyoming was definitely different. I guess we went about 300 to 400 miles across some of the most desolate land I have travelled. Riding down the highway, we had the road all to ourselves. We would occasionally see a house about every 50 miles or so.

We finally ran across the Interstate we were looking for, and jumped on. We passed several Oil Wells. I had no idea that they had those in Wyoming. I thought that was a Texas thing!! Live and learn they say.

We pulled in to Lander, Wyoming sometime early evening. I had in mind a camping area that we could stay in. I had not made reservations yet. We were pretty darn hungry by now, so decided to stop in a little burger joint on the main drag. Either I was really hungry, or that burger was awesome!!.

We started talking to this guy outside the restaurant. He asked us where we were staying. I told him the name of the campground. He suggested we stay in the city park. He said we could stay there for free - what a deal!. The park was great. We shared it with several other tent campers. There were no showers, but luckily the hotel in town had public use showers for 5 bucks, so we cleaned up before continuing onward toward Grand Teton National Park.