A photo journey form Idaho to Moissoui

      After crossing into Idaho we stopped at the visitors welcome center.. The lady at the booth tells us of a great state park just off the interstate. So we set our sites on the town of  Glenn's Falls ID. . Another neat small town with  a western feel. Would have like to spend some time there, but. There were also two little museums we wanted to see, especially the potato museum. But..........       We stop  at Three Rivers State Park, but only  for the night. These are a couple of be back areas to revisit. Oh no! what is that in the air? Haze, mist, no it's smoke. I thought we left that behind. Yes here in Idaho there are also some forest fires, at least none to close.

Acres and acres of solar panels

Take your pick

Oh no another mural

The Snake River

A neat old town with a western feel

Our site

Very nice well kept park

Is that smoke? Yes it is, but far away.

Back on the highway, many many covered up bales of hay

After leaving Idaho we cross into the state of Utah before connecting with I 80 going into the state of Wyoming to Nebraska.   

We go through Rattlesnake Pass.

Once we cross into Wyoming It is almost 400 miles before we get into Nebraska. We encountered many long hills. Some seem never ending. There is much dry patched looking landscape with little or no green along this stretch of highway.

We stop just over the hill in Philips RV Park in Everton WY, sorry no photo's.

Miles of snow fence

A very long train, all the way out of the photo

Going in both directions.

We cross the Continental Divide

Must be a good buffet

Along I 80,the highest point of the road. This is just off the old road of  route 30, The Lincoln Highway. This statue sits at the rest stop at mile marker 328. This is were we spend the night. Not a lot of RV Parks along this stretch of I 80.

We are joined by a few others.

Into Nebraska

One of many onion trucks that passed us. I feel I am being stalked (read the previous blog post).
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Sunflowers

Sidney NB the world headquarters. The store is not as big as some of the other Cabela's we visited.

O NO

I'M NOT HAPPY

When is the meter going to run out, or I hope you run out of quarters

A Chevy to the rescue

A really neat stop, to much road memorability to photo

Route 6

Never saw one of these. Home made ?

Old Gas pump tops

Still going, like that bunny

At the Sac-Fox casino. 20 back in sites with electric, $10.  night. We each received $40. in free slot play. Super Philly steak sandwich for $5. plus free drinks. What a great stop. We pulled in across sites so we didn't have to unhook. Not busy, only 4 other sites were being used.

Another small town USA main street, great getting off the interstate

Another main street

The story these old houses and barns could tell. Linda has so many pictures of old barns we could start a file

Yet another main street

Looks like a tropical mural, in Kanas?

This store caught our curiosity so we found a parking space. This town was on a detour. A very narrow secondary route, but look what we found.

Dose this count as a mural?

We arrive in Branson.

One more leg to Florida, with several stops

Road trip to Vale Oregon Sept 2017

     
      After leaving Burns we encounter a few passes with unusual names like Stinkingwater and Drinkingwater. There are a few long steep downgrades.

     On our way to Idaho we go through the town of Vale. We had read about the murals in town. Linda being a mural buff was excited. Well the excitement changes to outright joy as we enter the town. Pull over, pull over is all I hear in a excited loud voice. Even Hannah gets startled and starts looking around. Well no place right here, so we start circling the small town. Not once but three times. We did pull over for gas, and Linda jump's out. And off she goes on her quest. I park at the end of the gas station, and walk Hannah. Linda returns all smiles. She commands, that we have to go up a few streets and go down another. So we all get in the RV and follow her instructions. Seems she talked to someone who told her about a few others we missed. I spot a Less Schub tire store and check if they can check our tires. Yes, give then a few minutes. I guess I'm paranoid since the blow out. We will be getting on I 84, them I 80 for several hundred miles, so best to be safe. I do check them before we leave in the morning and with my heat gun whenever we stop especially along the interstate. In all there about 30 murals in this very small town. Many depicting The Oregon Trail. Very  neat, but some were beginning to show wearthering. We did miss about 12 pictures of murals. Not sure if we can come across them in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      BUT wait there is more. As we start out of town we both smell onions. And since I am not a fan of onions I pick up the smell instantly. The smell is getting stronger. Hannah starts smelling the vents, she even noticed the smell.

Then we begin  to see fields with what looks like onions all layed over like it is time to harvest.  Then we see the sign,

      Little did we  know that they grow 25% or over a Billion pounds of onions in the area consumed in the U.S.  You  know me know I am not looking for a roadside stand selling fresh onions.  A little research tells that here on the Oregon Idaho border is a very large onion producing area. Even though I don't like onions I would have liked to spend a day in this area. It is so much fum to find things like this on the back roads of America. Unfortunally we will be traveling 100's of miles along an interstate to get home to Florida and see what  damage we received from hurricane Irma .