Barton's Club 93 Jackpot

... off the beaten path to Promontory Utah. That is where the "golden spike" was used to connect the West and East by rail. You should have heard my car then...everyone else could. That didn't stop me ... I returned to the freeway via a 30 mile country road and then onto Twin Falls where the noise was too great and my common sense kicked in.

... trust the two directions to be too close together (or they are just trying to use up some space). There is sometimes 100's of metres and\or a valley in-between the two.

We went thorugh some road works as well that was interesting. Instead of have temp traffic lights at each end like in the UK there are men standong at each end holding placards saying stop on one side and slow on the other. This ...

... valleys were seldom broken up by green agriculture and off in the violet distance, broken looking bluffs beckoned. Going along the highway into Twin Falls, the road became a bridge over a deep gorge containing a small valley cut by the Snake River. it was so far down below, it looked like a miniature landscape. Fascinating terrain here in south idaho.

... cowboy country with the big rigs barreling past our chug-a-lug campervan we landed at Cactus Pete's RV park and casino. We managed to grab the last parking slot in an encampment of humongous 30 ft RVs. Our Roadtrek feels miniscule sandwiched between them. The skies opened up with thunder and lightning as we plugged in for ...

Today was pretty a much a day in the car with a couple of stops for gas, food and sightseeing. Instead of going down the Interstates to get to Twin Falls I took the long way through the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. It was a nice drive and I got to Twin Falls late in the afteroon ...

... in sending e-mails and photos, I'm hoping to create another travelogue for that trip that will also be available to you to puruse. Time will tell. One thing's for sure - retirement gives me more time to mess around with things like this and I'm kinda enjoying it. I hope you don't mind me involving you. I'll try not to bother you too much, okay?

... We got a hotel room in SLC, and though we ended up waiting well over an hour for the airport shuttle, it was nice to hit the pillow on American soil. We finally got to sleep at midnight, and were up at 5am for the remaining flight to Boise.

... tour of the city. Ben loved going to the Mormon info centre and even went back by himself later - I think the pretty Morman girls (tour guides) had him hooked or it could have been the really big statue of Jesus in the room eerily painted like the universe....Anyway, that night we found a sports bar (basketball) and Christie and Clark came from Park City to ...

Just so you all know, my dates are off on this trip as I have no memory of them, neither does my Dad...I was 10 years old...I have this blog for this trip to remember where we went! Although, I do remember going by the Great Salt Lake and Salt literally blowing up onto the car...it was incredible. We were in a draught that year. The winds were strong and the sun hot...interesting indeed.

... they are still there, but that had to be the best breakfast I ever had.
After leaving there I made a stop at a rest area scenic overlook on my way into Pocatello, where I stocked up on groceries and got some film. Now I swear they had price collusion in Pocatello for their gas prices. Every gas station I saw in town was either $134.9 or $1.35.9 no matter whether it was a ...