Welcome to Idaho, April 15

Greetings from Twin Falls Idaho! We didn't get to Salt Lake City because it would be another several hours. This is far enough today. We did see Hamley & Companyand it was very impressive. The Saddles were amazing and the art upstairs was beautiful. There were many large and bronze statues with one of Billy the Kid, Doc Holiday and my favorite was Wild Bill! The thing was that the prices were way beyond reasonable. Way beyound...We drove over Dead Man's Pass in the Blue Mountains with the temperatures hovering about 31 degrees and snow swirling in the lanes. No slipping we did! Literally hundreds of trucks going both ways and many of them were triples (three trailers). The traffic was spread out so we still moved right along. The scenery was awsome. I think the terrain was most noticeable. Very similar to Eastern Washington excepth the valleys were emense; maybe 15-20 miles across. We arrived in Ontario; it's right on the Idaho border and it felt like we were in Montana. The sky was huge!

We sailed through Caldwell, Nampa and Boise. There was alot of traffic and I wanted to get at least to Mountain Home. We stopped for lunch and fuel in Mountain Home and still had a few travel hours left in us so we pressed on. We turned off I-84 at Bliss to take hiway 30 through the hills. It's designated a scenic route. There's a good reason for that; it's amazing! You are driving along a huge flat river valley and realize that there is another plateau above you on both sides. We came to "Thousand Springs", which is where there is water falling out all along the eastern edge of the valley about half way up. It's a section at least a half mile long. The water starts way back on the plateau and flows down through the volcanic rock and out through the fissures. Very cool! Never seen anything like it, not even in National Geographic. I'll try to add the picture we took. It might not do it justice. We turned at Buhl and came East to Twin Falls. The time changed to Mountain Time back there somewhere so we lost an hour. It was definately time to stop, so we found the Motel 6 and shut off the car. Tomorrow we might not drive so far, but that remains to be seen. There are not that many choices in Northern Utah, but at Nephi we can get off the interstate and and take 28 South and drive through some beautiful places. That might be a little ambitious....so we'll keep you posted.