We left Twin Falls this morning at 8:30…not too bad for us! We had a little over 300 miles to go to get to Green River, WY where we were going to overnight before making it the rest of the way home. The drive was pretty uneventful and so I took the opportunity to reflect on all the adventures we’ve had together with Ava and The Beast.
196 days of adventure to be exact. Did you hear that? One hundred and ninety six days!!! That blows my mind! We’ve been to forts, caves, deserts, planetariums, star parties, beaches, presidents houses, battle sites, monuments, memorials, parks, capitol buildings, mountains, rainforests, cities, skyscrapers, estuaries, islands, rivers, canyons, arches, bridges, boats, kayaks, ferries, plantations, towers, lakes, zoos, museums and probably more. I’ll have to figure out the exact number but we’ve driven close to 20,000 miles in The Beast, the majority of which he was pulling Ava. At about 10 miles to the gallon and high diesel prices….well, you can do the math but don’t tell me the dollar amount please. Because, it doesn’t matter. Those 196 days exploring this country with my family was worth more than any amount of money.
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Idaho
Surprise at Twin Falls
It was 500 miles from Hood River to Twin Falls and that is pretty much our max. We stopped once for diesel and lunch and one other very quick restroom stop. Our departure time was 7:45am (Pacific time) and arrival time just after 6:00pm (Mountain time). And through all of that it was predominately hot and dry desserts. I was starting to wonder why Steph had booked us two nights at Twin Falls as these falls must be a joke in this parched and flat landscape. We had seen the Snake River a couple of times on our drive and it was definitely big….so maybe they have a little bit of water, but still, where could there possibly be a “falls” in this flat land. Well, we turned off I-84 towards Twin Falls and there, right in front of us, was a gigantic gash in the earth. An absolutely spectacular canyon that was a huge surprise after the sort of landscape we’d been in all day. Conveniently for us the fancy Perrine Bridge allowed us to cross to the other side of the canyon to reach our campground. Don’t worry, the bridge is not really bent like the picture below will lead you to believe…it’s an artifact of the the way I took the panorama image.
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