With the late arrival in Boise we slept in that next morning. When we finally decided to grab some breakfast, as we were hungry from the long drive and lack of an actual dinner the day before. We got some breakfast sandwiches on the most amazing homemade english muffins, some iced coffee. Boise was interesting to say the least, nice downtown with of course a Trader Joe’s for Noey to geek out over. Then we were driving again, another 6 hours of driving to Jackson, Wyoming and the Grand Tetons. On the way we saw dark hills streaked with patches of snow as we drove through the windy roads of Idaho.
A quick pitstop at the Craters of the Moon for some sightseeing and a PB&J to get us to Jackson. The park was covered in gnarly black rock and twisted trees taking up the cracks. The wind blew through the lava fields pushing away the grey clouds and giving us a beautiful view of the snow-topped mountain backdrop to the black field before us.
We scarfed down the PB&J and were back on the road.
We arrived in Jackson just before the sun was about to set. Before going over the mountains we were gifted a bunch of rainbows, full and part, came out of the sunny-rainy weather to greet us. We then made our way over the snowy pass driving about 19 mph in a 55 mph zone behind someone who refused to go any faster, lift their foot off the brake, or pull off to the side for the entire 8 miles, We luckily made over the mountains in one piece, only mildly frustrated. We made our way to our motel and we’re greeted with a cute gold and blue accented room with a cozy bed. From there we went and got some dinner and then drove out to the mountains to see if the night would clear up some of the clouds enough for us to see the Tetons. We got some photos of the mountains that were clear enough, but the weather forced us to save the main event for the next morning.
We got tucked in back at our room and took one last shower for the next 5 days and dreamed of the sights we were about to see the next few days in the great wilderness of the Grand Tetons.
