Trips: Day 10 Jackson Hole

Hooray, I've now spent at least one night in every state. Today is the final day of our western tour as tomorrow we start back home. We decided to spend the day hanging out in Jackson. I got up early, had breakfast and went for a walk while Sylvia was kind enough to do the last load of laundry. The hotel we're staying at has several nooks and crannies in the parking lot that are nice spots to sit in and enjoy the day. I took advantage of one to write this blog.

Hotel Nook in parking lot

Yesterday we walked the town, today we shopped the town. Yesterday I thought there weren't many souvenir shops, today there were many. You just had to actually go in the stores. One of the many things of interest was Jackson Town Square. It's in the center of town and is one square block and at each of the four corners there's an arch of made of hundreds of elk antlers.

Jackson Square Arch of Elk Antlers

For lunch we didn't exactly do local fare, we had lunch at the Thai Plate. Sylvia had Tom Yum Gai and I had Tom Kha Gai. Both were good and refreshing. Afterwards we walked around a bit more and stopped to checkout a restaurant called Local Restaurant & Bar. We each had a drink, talked to the bartender, and decided to make reservations for the evening. The menu looked like something we should do since we hadn't really done much in the way of local food. After that we went back to the hotel to plan for tomorrow's getaway.

The dinner at the Local Restaurant (localjh.com) was terrific. We had a couple glasses of wine, shared a Buffalo Tartare, Sylvia had Steak Frites, and I had an Elk Chop. Everything couldn't be better. We followed up by splitting a Chocolate Budino which I have never had before, and I can't describe it, but it was good. If I ever got back to Jackson (Hole), that's the first place I would go.

Tomorrow it's time to start home. I think we'll try to get east of Denver without too many lively discussions.