08-05-2024 Grand Teton National Park Ride

Feeling very grateful and blessed today as we road out to Grand Teton National Park from our location in Teton Springs Campground in Victor, ID our home for the next few days.

We took Rt. 33 out of Victor to Rt. 22. This was a very steep climb and then decent into a little town named Wilson that was loaded with many curves and switchbacks. Wilson had many places to eat and shop but still had the small isolated town feel to it.

Our first glimpse of the Tetons did not prepare us for what was coming in the way of views and scenery. We had some sightings of the mountains from the highway but at a distance as we road into Victor yesterday.

Eventually entering the Grand Teton National Park.

Complete with the flag offsetting the mountains and deer as waited in line.

The trees and local flowers were already stunning and making us very happy for the bright sunshine and good visibility.

After a little mishap with the HD GPS, and I have a few suggestions for what Harley Davidson can do with this version of the Boombox/GPS/Stereo that are not fit to be printed here, we found our way to the scenic Jenny Lake loop road.

Again, Nancy has made my job to create a post about the ride next to impossible with so many great pictures and this will be apparent as we go farther in this post. There are so many pictures from this trip now that I want blow-up, frame and hang on a wall at home that we will need more wall space. Not kidding. This road was very busy but if you get the chance just do it. Well worth the time to get there. Once there good luck finding a place to park in the one place to get really a really good look at Jenny Lake and the Tetons beyond. Sometimes it is good to be a motorcycle and you can fit into nooks and crannies when parking is limited. Here is a small sample of the pictures Nancy, and eventually I once parked, got.

And more to come. We kept going and taking more pictures until we got to the Damn on Jackson Lake.

                                                           

    

If you keep going North it is not very far to the Southern part of Yellowstone National Park but since we had just been there we turned around and heading back to Victor.

Somewhere along the way back we stopped at one of the many pull-offs.

All I can say is "Happy That Much". Some of will you who worked at Osram will know the reference used here.

Just a few more pictures picked out by us showing more of this great Park. OK maybe more that a few. By all means necessary go here if you get the chance. I think it s safe to say this is our favorite stop on the trip so far. But this opinion may change before the end of the trip.

TTFN.

Doug and Nancy