Dateline: Star Valley, Wyoming. Today we drove from Rock Springs to our home here in the Star Valley. It is a nice drive, not too long and mostly scenic. The Star Valley is building up somewhat quickly; it is both a resort area and a bedroom community for Jackson.
Jackson is a three-season resort; spring is the only "down" season. Winter is the season for skiing and snowmobiling, summer is for camping, fishing and river-rafting, and fall is for hunting deer, elk, and bear.
Like Meeker about which we wrote yesterday, Jackson has been "discovered" by the rich and super-rich. In the Jackson real estate market, the joke is that the billionaires are buying out the millionaires. Consequently, real people who work in Jackson cannot afford to buy homes there.
Police, teachers, hospital staff, civil servants either rent or live elsewhere and commute. Those who commute from the Star Valley drive 100 miles a day to reach their jobs in Jackson. That drive must be exciting during the long winters we get here in the Rockies.
This is the last edition of Travel Blogging for the next month or so. In the meanwhile, we return to commentary upon politics, world affairs and other interests like the one below.
