Thayne, Wyoming: The weather seemed to want to improve a bit this morning, so we all piled in the Honda and DT drove us one hour north to Jackson for lunch and a walk around the town square. As promised, I took photos of Mom - under an arch made of (naturally shed, of course) elk antlers.





We went to a new place on the square, Local, a restaurant and bar that specializes in locally-raised game - elk and bison. Y'all I know I just eat this stuff up (pun intended) and love all this sustainable ranching hoopla.




Later in the evening, Gene took us to Afton to try a new Chinese restaurant. A Chinese restaurant in this neck of the woods is absolutely a rarity, but a Chinese family from Los Angeles has arrived to serve up Chinese and Thai foods to the local cowboys. The restaurant is housed in an old steak house/saloon/liquor store in a predominately Mormon community and may survive solely by the fact they are the only business in the entire town open on Sunday - and they have a liquor license. The food wasn't bad - though this is the first time we had seen zucchini in Kung Pao Chicken - and it was definitely the first time we had been in a Chinese restaurant with stuffed moose and elk heads on the wall (left over from when the joint was a steak house, no doubt).

We had a super good time at the restaurant tonight. We were joined by Gene's daughter, Cheryl, and she had a few good stories to entertain us. Cheryl was interested in our life in Asia and we were interested in her life training horses and hiking in the mountains behind her ranch. (Cheryl and DT grew up in Merced, California as kids and went to the same high school.) It was great to get to know her better.

Until my next update, I remain, your gamey correspondent.
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