Cowboy Powder

11 inches of new snow in the last 24 hours, heyo!

Had a blast at breakfast this morning with the GVOG ladies and then a walk with the dogs to the Elk Refuge!! Great to be back!!

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Good to be back!

Beautiful sunset as we rolled into town. Unhooked the trailer then went and enjoyed a couple cold ones with great friends at the brew pub! Feels so great to be back in Jackson. Looking forward to some powpow and apres tomorrow!!

Excited to sleep and love our awesome set up- thanks Pete and Barb!! Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow with Hanna, Callie, Brantley and Madeline!

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JACKSON!!!!!!

We made it!

Heading to the pub to catch up with Pete, Barb, Chappy and Emily & Luis!!!

Happy Leap Day!

5 miles to Jackson. Slow going from Pinedale as we hit a bunch of snow.

Winter never arrived in Mass but it's definitely here in WY!

Today is Wednesday and I’m sad I’m not heading to Coogan’s for karaoke night with the American Personnel crew. Luckily I have the memories to look back on: Rob walking in, taking a shot of Dr. Mc Gillicuddy’s  and jumping on stage to sing Johnny Cash, Greta getting numbers from the twin bartenders, creepy guys hitting on Veronica and handing out their business cards as she heads to the stage to sing Janice Joplin, and Manny KILLIN it with the most amazing rendition of I Want it That Way by the Backstreet Boys I have ever seen! Good times and great memories!

I am equally sad I will not be playing soccer tonight with Green Death, the best group of random people I have ever had the pleasure to play with. Who would have thought a group of 4 couples randomly assigned to a team could come together, bonded and been so dominate? I think out of the 6 seasons we played together we were the champions 4 times, could have been more seasons and more championships too, hard to keep track of all those wins. That time was extra special to me too because even though Ed hadn’t played soccer since he was 8, he offered to play with me and it as so much fun. It was amazing seeing how much he improved in such a short time and was handy having a “meathead” football player to take out players on the other team, male or female it didn’t matter.

Pinedale

Shout out to Jordo as we stroll through his hometown!

 We have 66 miles to go! Fingers crossed for clear roads!

Eat our dust Laramie!

This was our visibility for parts of the drive this morning!!

What we were trying to avoid. 

Everyone looked ok in the truck!

Windy!

This is the only time during our trip the dogs didn't sleep! 

They could tell something was up! Smart little doggies!

Good news is that is behind us and the roads and conditions are looking better ahead of us! 

On a positive note, we were able to fill up for $2.99 this morning which was great! 

On a not so positive note, our 4WD light will not go off now even though we believe we turned it off.

 Hard tellin not knowin! 

Shout out to the hubster!

The drive from Cheyenne to Laramie last night was the scariest stretch of the trip so far. The temp dropped to 12, it was windy, icy and the pass was steep. Ed did such a great job driving slow and keeping all of us safe! We took a vote and Brody and I voted Ed the MVP of the trip for his excellent driving last night. Reegen of course voted for himself and feels he’s done the best job barking at cows, horses, protecting us from the Papa John’s delivery man and anyone else who walked by our hotel room! Either way Ed got 2 votes so he is officially the MVP of the trip and we are so appreciative of his patience and attention to safety. Even though he did set the alarm an hour early this morning because our phones are not changing with the time zones, I will let him keep his title! THANKS BABE FOR ALL YOU DO! I LOVE YOU!!

We are learning so much on this trip! While I was able to teach Ed the perfect scoop of a peanut buster parfait (a little more vanilla than fudge but a good amount of both, you don’t want one to overpower the other, and at least one peanut) he taught me the art of drafting behind trucks, the “3 second rule” (I shouldn’t pass an object the truck in front of me passed for at least 3 seconds) and let me know it’s actually not a race- what dude? Playing leap frog with the semis- I would get them on the straight-aways but they would always pass me on the hills. Drives me crazy!