Travel Blogs from Boise, United States
How do I explain Boise?!? It's worth a READ!
... , I'll be there!' I'm going to pretend there was a fly on the wall (shoulder) and let him describe what happened in Boise. Gingerman departs the bus and looks around for his host. He collects his bag and walks into the Greyhound waiting room. He spots a ...
Day 7: Provo, UT to Boise, ID
Day 7: States covered: Utah to Idaho Miles covered: Approx. 400 (we broke 3,000 total miles today) Weather: Mostly sunny and nice. One quick rain storm, one dust storm and temps cracking high 90's near Boise Abby Meltdowns: 2 - The mountain sleepies ...
A river runs through it
... and Payette rivers, and offers access to the Sawtooth Wilderness and the River of No Return Wilderness. At Bogus Basin Ski Resort you can night ski all winter long. Boise, Idaho Population 189,847 Elevation 2,726 Mountain and Pacific time ...
Boise Team Meeting
... members include: * Francie Aguilar, Nampa, ID -- Team Leader * Susan Schiffler, Twin Falls, ID -- Team Member * Anna Sparrell, Boise, ID -- Team Member * Eric Spovey, Boise, ID -- Team Member * Craig Barry, Ketchum, ID -- Team Member ...
Day 28 – Thursday, April 25
A quiet day today. We grocery shopped in the morning. Jim went fishing in the Boise River with a guide. He did dry fly fishing and wet fly fishing. A few fish were caught and released to swim again. Barbara crashed at the trailer. It ...
Day 1 : Philly to Boise
... a very pretty place and would be a lovely setting for a wedding. We decided it was time for dinner and wandered through downtown Boise until we found the Bittercreek Ale House. The reviews on both yelp and foursquare were good so we decided to check it ...
A looong drive
... . We bid our good friends Gloria ad Barney and of course my loving father goodbye and off we went. A ten hour drive to Boise! I had called Elise Saxby (the mother of my friend Jenna, who I have known since Kindergarten) to get her daughter's new number. ...
Tukey day at home....
... 10am to 8pm. It's not as bad as it sounds, I spent Saturday actually attending a football game. The game itself was mediocre (Boise State won 62-10) but the tailgating was something to marvel at. I attended one with my stepdad and his friends where there ...
Day 26 – Tuesday, April 23
Today is a travel day from Utah to Boise, Idaho. We saw many interesting things along the way. • High desert, open ranges as far as the eye can see, broad flat plains of the Curlew Valley o ...
1,2,3 GO
... with his nature adjectives. I will soldier on for you, the loyal reader and talk about our day in Jackson Wyoming and Boise Idaho yesterday. Joe and I both agree that the best dreams from childhood were those where you would randomly take off in flight. ...
Bend to Boise
... got a lot better. The posted speed limit was 75, but unfortunately there was a ton of construction so we never got above 60...bummer! Boise was blazing hot at 102, and I was glasd that the AC was working well. We got to the Doubletree and got ...
Day 27 – Wednesday, April 24
... people left Spain and came to America. They settled in many parts of the country with a large number coming to the Boise area. In Spain, traditional jobs are in fishing and herding. Shepherding brought many Basque to this area. As ...
11 days and Spud Country
I'm going to make this short, despite the long drive the scenery was so idyllic and beautiful south of Coeur d'Alene!! Wonderful scenery...thanks for the advice Dad! We are in Boise, but hiding in our hotel room.....headaches and tummy aches all around! ...
Oh Boise!
... a TON of potato fields intermingled in with those said farms... go figure. Idaho. Land O' Potatoes. Hahaha. Once we hit Boise, we drove "downtown" (I thought this was a State Capitol?? Most small town state capitol I can remember!... really! does ...
Driving to Idaho
Woke up to another beautiful clear, blue sky and a backdrop of snow kissed mountains - awesome. We left for the trip to Boise, Idaho at about 10am (not realising that we would have to put out clocks forward an hour in Idaho...) and stopped at restaurant ...
Airport Fun
Arrived at the Boise Airport and found that they could not check our bags to our final destination because we don't have our passports with us. We need to claim the bags in Seattle and recheck them on Icelandic Air. Why don't we have ...
Home Again and New Home--Boise to Portland
... hairs! We arrived in Boise to stay with Dan's family and had a barbecue with the family and friends. The third day in Boise, we titled "REFLUX DELUXE!" About one week before our trip started, Heidi was experiencing some reflux, which she has never had ...
A family affair, huh!
... know where it was. I decided to quit looking and chill in a cafe with free wifi; I was beginning to think travelling to Boise had been a terrible mistake because so far it wasn't going so well. Looking up the hostel online I discovered it didn't open ...
O'Boise
... all dead or closed. I was horrified. This is me, who doesn't even drink very much. Horrified. Boise is a city that portends a funk seen in Baltimore and Portland. Their funk is just not all that functional and doesn't stay ...
Back to Boise
... berry, as short as she was round. Arriving in Boise was probably the best feeling of relief ever…. I had finally made it! Boise was like I remembered it. Joy and her family still feel like my adopted family, and Joy’s house still feels like ...
Day 30 – Saturday, April 27, 2013 One Month
Today was a day of “firsts”. We went to the first Farmer’s Market of the season. Part of it was in a downtown parking lot. The remainder of it was along 5 city blocks. There were farm ...
Day 29 – Friday, April 26, 2013
... . Inside it also has beautiful marble interior and wonderful architecture. Outwardly, this building looks similar to others in its neighboring states, it’s very different inside. Yes, it has great columns, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. It has an ...
Der Kampf / The fight
... angenommen und bei extrem heftigem Regenfall und Gewitter die relativ kurze Passtrasse ueberstanden und habe mich in Caldwell, nahe Boise, in einem Campingplatz niedergelassen. Doch: Wie immer und ueberall in Amerika, befinden sich die Campingplaetze aus ...
Day 2
... of the world (read: their neighborhood). I had a greasy spoon lunch; this is not a place to be picky. Then I drove thru downtown Boise and wasn't sure if I wanted to park the car and walk a bit thru town but it's just not that interesting and you can ...
The Blue Football Field
We pull into Boise and the first thing we have to see is...the Blue football field of Boise State. It's cool and there is a high school all star game on tonight. After the game we head on up to Cascade, Idaho. We park on the side the road next to the ...
Noisy Boise
... is the Mustangs, but the Broncos might want to have a chat with them about their logo. B.S., as we decided to refer to Boise State, has a large football stadium. The claim to fame is that they have a blue field. Blue and orange actually. Why? Who ...
Boise Bound
Out and back. Overnight to Boise. Very friendly van driver from the Red Lion, Boise. Did not see the blue turf this ...
Home again
I've been home for three days. Have spent a few hours looking at photos, telling stories to family members and getting used to things back here. I think the journey home started in the airport in Johannesburg. It had been three weeks since we had heard ...
Raging rivers
... see. We stopped at Horseshoe Bend so that Cliff could look at the trains of the Thunder Mountain Railroad before continuing into Boise. We are camped alongside the Boise River. The river has breached its banks, and part of the ...

