Craig, Colorado is an old cowboy town, tucked into the Rocky Mountains close to the Utah border. It's a tough climate...rugged, arid...cold in the winter, hot in the summer. Real cowboys settled here (and a few outlaws, too). These guys worn denim jeans that were not pre-washed or pre-worn. Their Stetson [...]

We stayed the night in Vernal, Utah and got a serious kick out of the town's use of the dinosaur theme. A friendly-looking, long eye-lashed, 30' tall pink dinosaur officially welcomed us to “Utah's Dinosaurland”. There was a gigantic T-Rex in the town park sporting a graduation mortarboard and a [...]

We saw a tiny mention of the Pilot Butte Wild Horse Scenic Loop on page 65 of the 2012 Official Wyoming Travel Journal. Just twenty-three little words...enough to spark our interest and do a little more research on the internet. Just follow Wild Horse Canyon Road from the main road in Green River and [...]

We stayed last night in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, an upscale, touristy little western town. It was pleasant to wander around the little downtown area. We window-shopped, but didn't buy. We headed to Green River, Wyoming this morning via Kemmerer, fossil capital of the world (and home to the original J.C. [...]

We figured we had seen the best, how could anything compare? Yellowstone was so outstanding, so overwhelming, we were prepared for a bit of a letdown today as we ventured south to Grand Teton National Park. How could we have possibly underestimated this park so much?

We started the day early at Yellowstone. We were up and out of the room by 0400. There was frost on the pumpkin and we shivered at 28F (-2C). Brrr! We headed in the dark to Lamar Valley, the best place to view bears and wolves, we were told. We did, indeed see one bear and one wolf which was a thrill, [...]