Best America Suites Twin Falls

... 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.

... a cheap pillow than the fact that it was a Walmart. Although that was good too. I did not think that it was much better than ASDA. Larger certainly but other than that not much different. Other than that excitement it was driving all day. Lots of sleeping occurred and so it was very quiet for much of the journey. We did have a few stop as usual bu we were travelling through an area that was ...

My Mom and Dad met at the Boise Courthouse in 1936 and eloped to Cascade in March of 1937. I wanted to go to the courthouse in Cascade and get a copy of their marriage license. The drive up through the high, bare mountains followed along the Payette Rive. At times the river was quiet as a pond and around the next corner it was crashing white water ...

Woke early to finishe packing while listening to the lovely sounds of Deanna playing hymns on her grand piano. Had a beautiful drive day--cloudy with a few showers. Stopped in Cheyenne to split a Subway sandwich, then on to Twin Falls where we stayed at a brand-new Hilton Garden Inn (only 2 months old) directly overlooking the Snake River Gorge. We gassed up at the Costco nearby, then drove to ...

... costing about an hour of time. So I ended up in Twin Falls instead of Boise. Oh well.

On the way, I saw the Grand Teton Range from the west. Not quite as impressive as from the east since you can see foothills from this side but still impressive. Upper and Lower Mesa Fall was worth a short side trip (especially the upper falls where the overlook gets right up to the falls.)

I then headed over to Craters of the Moon ...

... we really lucked out!
After looking and taking about 100+ pictures of the falls, we decided to go swimming at the lake right there in the Shoshone Falls park. They have a great set-up for swimming and the lake is very refreshing (sorry, no pictures of the lake - Noland didn't want any more pics of the water)
The girls did some fishing - no luck - Idaho fish don't like CA marshmallows as bait :-)
I wish we can stay here longer, what a beautiful place to visit! Tomorrow we are ...

... along the way. The Oregon side only has one tunnel and its a short one. As I expected the temperature started going up after we came out of the Cascade Locks area and neared Hood River. By the time we got to the The Dalles it was up in the 80's and time for the A/C. There were no wind surfers today on the river but lots of fishing boats. And there was a lot of water coming over the Bonneville and John Day Dam's. And as always it is fun to look for ...

... that in Nevada. Not as early as early as we thought... With the sun still lingering late in the evening, we found a great place to stay. And it was a pretty nice town as well. Its not only the weather that is looking up. Now that we are clear of those nasty redwood trees, life on the whole seems a lot brighter. Very comfy bed. Very quickly asleep. Stay: Shilo Inn & Suites Drive: 680 miles

... went for a drive to check out the Twin Falls themselves, which werent too exciting as there wasnt much water going over them. From there I went out to dinner to a nearby Applebees restaurant. I had a couple of beers after dinner before heading back to the hotel to crash for the night.

... felt like I was in a loggers' camp. The cooking area was on one side of the room and you could see all the action. The special I ordered was 6 big sausage, 3 eggs, 2 toast and hash browns with coffee for $3.50. And there were two things that amazed me. How much was piled on my plate for that amount, (I think he added pancakes too), and how everything was done at the same time ...