Almost West Yellowstone

We stopped for groceries an hour short of West Yellowstone.  It said LAST CHANCE and it also said Beer.  It did not seem prudent to continue.  I asked the store woman if she had any recommendations for good, cheap, locally owned motels in West Yellowstone.  We stared that in Pagosa Springs, asking for locally owned businesses - It's an extension of the local beer thing.  We are the tourists who are all local all the time!  She told us we should stay at the Anglers Lodge right across the street because the motel views in West Yellowstone are of other motels.   So we did.  The room does have a great view and a back door onto a back porch; looks like in summer you can fish in the river from your seat on the porch.  It has occurred to me that maybe this fuss about fly fishing is warranted; you get to mess about in pristine river settings and you don't have to mess with nasty bait or poke any poor little worms.  If you are lucky, you won't even hurt/hook any fish, unless you are hungry, and then you do want to snag em.

Message to Gilah: the rest of you don't need to read this.  I had a band dream last nite.  Never had one before.  It was a concert, and the director (Clair Miller?) pulled a fast one on us, started with some weird Cage type piece called Ode to New Mexico that we had looked at once. The music (what is the name for  our copy of the music?) said we were supposed to whisper and say things and we were lost right from the beginning - the audience up in the bleachers was doing it better than us.  I am not sure if it was you, but I was on the end, and we were looking at each other whispering "Where the hell are we?" so it sure seemed like you....

BEER REPORT!  youall can start reading again.  Pale Ale from Snake River Brewing in Jackson Hole.  I like it.  You would think it might have been expensive being brewed in a hotsy-totsy place like Jackson Hole, but it was the usual or a dollar cheaper at $7.99.  However, I am suspicious about the name.  The Snake River flows to the Columbia, and i thought Jackson Hole would be on the eastern side of the continental divide.  I am probably wrong.  

We tried the chains on the car in the snowy parking lot.  Well, technically, I put the chains on only one wheel, but now I feel sure they will both fit, and i won't need to read the stinkin directions.  The sign on the motel says to park back from the building 10 -15 feet because if snow sliding off the roof, and there is a lot up there, maybe 2 feet.  Makes you think twice about walking underneath it.  Today we take the snocat to the motel cabins at Old Faithful!