Blogs from Idaho, United States, North America - page 3

We were up and on our way soon after 6am. Once we got out of the town, we drove sooo many miles without seeing a single place to stop for coffee. Finally, we spotted the Silver Lake Mercantile. The place was so welcome, and the owners were quite friendly. The lady had a lot of unusual decorations outside, reminding of my wife. We grabbed our coffees and continued down the numerous small roads that would eventually lead us to Idaho and our final destination of Boise. Besides be so desolate, we ran into two different places where they were working on the road. The first one was a short wait to be lead down single open lane, but the second one was a 20-minute wait, and at a time we were a little worried about arriving ... read more

This year for vacation, I had originally planned on walking the Camino again, this time with my wife! Unfortunately, Spain and most of the places along the Camino were not fully open, nor were military space available flights... available. Pardon the seeming redundancy. Instead, my wife had expressed a desire to either visit Alaska or the United States Northwest. We opted for the Northwest, and I spent a good bit of time exploring possible sights. After showing this info to my wife, along with locations of nearby KOAs, I started making reservations and developing web pages for each place. A quick rundown before I really start Day 1. We fly out of Greenville/Spartanburg International Airport on July 12th at 6am, change planes at Dallas/Fort Worth, and arrive at Boise Idaho's airport around 11am, Mountain Time. We ... read more

Days 5, 6, & 7. Today we started out early and drove down through Yellowstone. The guys stopped a couple of times to try their luck at fishing. We search for wildlife but really didn't see much. Toward the end we saw elk and bison. We did see a large bison herd across the stream and field from us. One lonely bison caused a traffic jam. At first Terry couldn't see what was going on. He thought there had been a wreck and that a woman with a heavy, ragged, fur coat was walking down the side of the road. Boy was he wrong! In Yellowstone we stopped at Gibbons Falls, the High Falls of the Yellowstone in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Because Yellowstone is so huge and because we were on a time ... read more

Today was our last cycling day on the Trail of the Coure d’Arlene and the weather today was different than our last two days. It was cooler, in the 60s with a strong wind that we got to ride into all day, and scattered rain in the area. Dave was the MVP of team Ring today. He rode in front of me and broke the wind all day long - that saves about 30 percent of effort for me. He was a machine on the front all day long. All of the people we talked to on the path thought the wind was something. I think the normal blowing was 10-15 miles an hour; when it gusted, it had to be 20-25 miles an hour. The only wildlife we saw was a moose far away, and ... read more

Sunday Our day started out at McDonalds. Little did we know that we were visiting the National Champions of quickest drive thru breakfast McDonalds ... but we were. Since we didn’t know, we went into the lobby. Most of the staff were wearing their National Champion shirts; the high schooler behind the counter wasn’t wearing his, because it is hot. We asked them what they were champions of, and heard the tale of the recent - and undisclosed - national McDonalds competition to determine over a 6 week period, which McDonalds had the fastest drive thru service, well the winner was the McDonald’s on Vista in Boise. Their nearest competitor was in Alaska. Next we headed north. Our destination is St Marie’s, ID. We chose the scenic route, along the Palette River. What a lovely river, ... read more