Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Oregon to Idaho


 We had a leisurely morning this morning.  The Best Western that we were in served a "normal" buffet breakfast but everyone had to wear gloves to serve themselves.  We are being VERY cautious about covid and went down to see what the breakfast situation was.  The room was totally empty, so we served ourselves and took our breakfast back to the room.  Lunch was eaten outside at a picnic table beside Panera.  I'll share our dinner decision later...

We headed out and I really enjoyed our drive on I84 (which is good because we have been on it both yesterday and today and will be hopping back on tomorrow!  I forgot to mention yesterday that we saw an apparently homeless man walking 3 little dogs on the highway.  Today after we headed out we saw him again!!  We were at LEAST a hundred miles from where we saw him before.  He must have gotten a ride and bless whoever picked him and his 3 pups up and gave them a break.  We were shocked to see him! 

We loved seeing all the wind farms and solar panels along the road today.  There were windmills as far as we could see at times!


We stopped at the Idaho welcome center and weirdly the only rest rooms were port a potties!  They were very clean, and lined up outside the building with washing stations.   We changed time zones as we moved into Idaho so our devices (some of them) moved forward an hour. 


You can go FAST in Idaho!  Hard to read, but yes that sign says 80!


 We arrived at the hotel and the poor person checking folks in was having a heck of a time with the key making machine.  She issued us 2 keys then finally let us in to our room with the master before finally making a key that worked!  Ah technology.  

We were not super hungry so we went to Culvers next to the hotel because I had read they had good food AND yummy ice cream.  We got a really good strawberry pecan grilled chicken on a salad for our meal, so of course we HAD to have ice cream.  Ice cream in bed?  But of course - we are on vacation!


We look forward to exploring Twin Falls tomorrow.  Till then we'll use our bed for sleeping off the ice cream!




 


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