Well after a water rationing stop we headed toward Idaho for another overnight stop. I’m not sure what I expected but Idaho was not the lush farmland I expected. Lots of dry dirt, dry mountain scapes, fairly flat and lots of square rocks in the fields. Oh and lots of potatoes. Jo tried to get pictures of the trucks heaped up with potatoes and the machines used to dig them but never managed to eat a great shot.
Some of these pictures may be before and after or Idaho stop but Utah and Idaho kind of blended into one another. Beautiful in their own way but not where Jo and I would feel comfortable. We are spoiled with all the greenery in Maine and Florida though our neighbor in Florida said lots of brown and wind blown damaged greenery at our place form the Hurricane Milton. The wind dries our the leaves along with the salt in the rain that is blown inland from the gulf even though we are a couple of miles inland. Oh well the nice thing about Florida is everything grows back fast if its alive. We are fortunate to have a nice lawn guy and great neighbors to watch over things.
We arrive at “Abundant Life Campground in Caldwell Idaho and we were greeted by a nice person at the desk who said you must be William Brewster. Odd as I left my name tag at home lol. Turns out we were probably the only camper passing through as everyone looked like full timers or at least not a short stay. But we had water and a train. Yup they keep following us and I wanted to get up at 5 AM anyway. With the time changes we have been trying to adjust but still go to bed earlier and arise earlier as we acclimate.
While walking the dog we met a gentleman who appeared to be heading to his camper from the showers. He asked how we liked the Airstream and proceeded to tell us about his work doing renewable energy sites grading and excavating. He also mentioned his daughter Tiffany Rea was Miss United States 2020 (Not Miss USA or Miss America) and was now Miss Oregon in the Miss USA pageant. He also said he wasn’t a fan of Covid shots and took Hydroxychloroquine when he got Covid once he learned we were Doctor and Nurse. We had a friendly conversation where we agreed to disagree on all of that but left friendly. People are really friendly even when you disagree but speak in person not anonymously on the internet. We need more in person discussions and less pretending the internet is an equal substitute.
It was nice to have plenty of water. Jo cooked up a to die for Pasta with Pesto and Shrimp…could of been why he stepped back a few steps when we met Mr Rea lol.
Next stop Caldwell Oregon.
PS Totally unrelated to this leg of the trip but one night a few nights ago we had a package of chicken Pad Thai. In the package were two small package of Thai Noodles with all sorts of warnings not to eat the smal tin foil package. I am a little worried that they think we need all the warnings lol.
Bill and Jo’s Road Trip 