Blogs from Craters Of The Moon National Monument, Idaho, United States, North America

Efter en dejlig uge i McCall med hele familien, er det dejligt at komme videre med næste del af ferien. Vi pakkede bilerne og kørte fra McCall i silende regn. Det gjorde afskeden lidt nemmere. De fleste af os mødtes i Boise downtown, hvor vi alle spiste aftensmad sammen. Endnu engang har vi fået en rigtig fin bil med plads til hele selskabet. Vi følges med Ann og Bob, der kører i deres eget mobilehome. Bob og Peter har i fællesskab planlagt en passende tur. Peter og Søren hentede bilen tirsdag morgen. Med en hurtig indsats fra alle, var vi ret hurtigt klar til at køre. Vi har hurtigt fundet ind i rollerne. Peter og Søren er vores piloter og jeg er stewardessen. De andre er glade mennesker på ferie. Ida og Simon udnyttede straks en ... read more

Annette and Tom were leaving the reunion and flying north to the Arctic Circle to tour around the Svalbard Archipelago. Steve and Ellie were heading south to New Zealand and the rest of us were driving east or west to our homes. We decided to do some exploring on the way back to California so when we left the Black Hills we headed for the back roads of Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. We probably wouldn’t have found Crazy Woman Battlefield, Rattlesnake Lane, Poison River, Massacre Rocks or my personal favorite, Bumpass Hell, along the interstate highways. Wyoming has to be one of the prettiest states in the union. Buffalo is an old frontier town which saw its share of battles both between Indians and settlers and between farmers and the cowmen. It sounds like a song ... read more

Today we are driving the Peaks to Craters Scenic Byway on our way to Yellowstone National Park. We are traveling a very diverse Idaho landscape, mountains, deserts, lava fields, and irrigated pastures. We stopped at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve which had volcanic activity as recent as 2000 years ago. Literature from the park indicates that it got it's name from a geologist that described it as "the surface of the moon as seen through a telescope." (The craters on the moon are actually formed by meteorites, not volcanos). In 1924 President Coolidge proclaimed Craters of the Moon a National Monument, preserving "a weird and scenic landscape, peculiar to itself." The lava fields come from not one volcano but rather a series of deep fissures in the earth's crust-known collectively as the "Great ... read more

Entry 29: Mt. St. Helens National Monument Drive to Umatilla National Forest, Oregon and onto Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho Friday, August 27 - Saturday, August 28, 2010 Portland Out...Eastern Oregon Camping In... Leaving the Mt. St. Helens National Monument, as I looked at the road atlas, I realized that in this late stage of the game, Portland, my original goal to visit after leaving Seattle, was now out. It was at least 60 miles back to the west, and I was now in an “eastern” frame of mind. Plus, a town as cool as Portland deserves more than a quick Olympia-styled drive-through. Scott and I had visited there in 1988, where, after “pitching a drunk,” we stumbled upstairs, where I vomited into the sink after smelling the "head/hair odor" of a former patron ... read more

I woke up bright and early this morning in Missoula, Montana and began my day with a trip to Wal-Mart. I went to make me a bowl of cereal and we were out of milk so I grabbed my wallet and off I went. I left Tim sleeping so he could get a little extra rest but when I returned he was already dressed and ready to go. He stood there counting all the other motorhomes in the parking lot and said there were 16 others besides us. That's probably comes close to being the most ever. It's so weird because it's like we're a little club or something......"The Wal-Mart RV Club" ! Often we'll see the same people from town to town and get to know each other. We were having some trouble with the ... read more