Day 2 of the Family Road Trip

Up early enough in the morning to drive through the Tetons with just a few other cars, instead of bumper-to-bumper cars.

The mountains were beautiful.

We had breakfast at Genevieve's in Jackson Hole and found some black and white film for Ben.

On our drive across eastern Idaho, Ben was using his new film to shoot some photos from a turn-out in the road, when an INL Security Vehicle pulled up next to us, and a security guard in desert camo and probably 40 pounds of gear attached to her uniform (including a gun strapped to her thigh), and asked if we were okay and what we were doing. We'd seen signs for the INL, but had no idea what it was. Turns out it's the Idaho National Laboratory, a nuclear facility whose mission is to "ensure the nation's energy security with safe, competitive, and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabilities." and whose vision is "by 2015, INL will be the pre-eminent nuclear energy laboratory with synergistic, world-class, multi-program capabilities and partnerships." She said that she wanted to make sure that nothing was wrong, but I think that Ben's camera was her concern. Not that we could even see the nuclear facility from where we were stopped. There wasn't much to see but scrub brush and a low mountain in the background. But we didn't argue. Ben got back in the car, and we calmly drove away.

More on our ghost lodge in Ketchum in the next post.