Hltn Grdn Inn Boise Spectrum

I'm going to start with Boise, Idaho even though I'm living in Ontario, Oregon. It's the closest that the www.travelpod.com FB application has to my home.

Anyway, I felt I needed to keep a travel log of where I will be going, what I will be doing so that friends and family will be able to keep up ...

... televisions on all night, and talked on the balcony above us until we had to wake the managers up at 12:30 a.m. to talk with them. The off site manager was nice enough to send someone over to talk to them - but it started up all over again the very next night. They badly need an onsite manager or office people all night. The noise was HORRIBLE!!!

... had a bad leak. Lying in bed, we were on the ground in no time, so we pulled out the couch bed (the bed I remember sleeping in while having sleepovers at the Saxby’s in elementary and middle school). In the morning, Jenna sent us off with blueberry scones she made the night before, as well as some more snacks. I wish we could have visited longer. But Jenna is coming to SoCal in December, so I am looking forward to seeing her then.

As we drive (actually Terry drives and I sleep, read or play on the iphone) for two days to get to our new location I think about all we have seen in the past month. The longest we were in one state was Washington but we have tried to cram so much in to be home in our allotted 2 months. We learned about the wolves in Yellowstone where one of the campers comes to watch them and even has attended workshops during the winter at Yellowstone ...

Charlie says he feels much calmer today and has adopted Toni's car as his new home. We went to two different cemeteries, the only green places around with shade trees, so he could get a good walk and I could sit on a gravestone and eat lunch.

I found the sagebrush filled valleys and rolling hills soothing and relaxing with nary another car ...

das eine freibad direkt an der strassenkreuzung lud nicht wirklich zum schwimmen ein, der fluss mit starker strömung nach einem kraftwerk hingegen schon und selbst dieser war wärmer als der crater lake...

boise macht einen ziemlich verschlafenen eindruck aber ich dachte, wenn ich schon mal in der gegen bin, muss ich einfach bei HP vorbeischauen ...

... choices (Meg watched Hanna Montana movie another 4 or 5 times, Paul got to watch the newest Star Trek, Bobby enjoyed Monster Vs. Aliens and there was a Monk episode for me. NO ONE even came close to fighting. Plus they had games for the kids, and even better, it wasn’t full so I scooted over across the aisle and got to lay down to sleep (more or less).

After Arco, we went to the Challis Hot Springs Campground near Challis, ID. As its name implies, the campground has hot springs feeding two pools for swimming and soaking. That was the good part about the campground. Unfortunately, the rain continued while we were there and our campsite turned into a large mud hole since we were in the only site that was not on gravel or lawn. After two nights there, we were glad to leave for our next ...

... the laptop. Mom kept reading the Chuck Norris book we bought for Dad the other day, and she couldn't stop laughing. And we got a dime stuck somehow in the power outlet for the laptop; I nearly screamed when the sparks flew out; what can I say, I don't like sparks. The TV froze and everyone voted to have Gabi suffer to make her fix it. Dad and Mom kept trying to find Bill Gates' house; they kept failing. It was funny to watch; especially since us kids hadn ...

... witnesses one. Today's Trivia Question: What unique European ethinic group has a notable presence in Boise, ID? Answers to yesterday's trivia questions: Who knows but we had no problem finding a place in Boise -- with curtains. Our original plan was to head west from Salt Lake City and stop over in Reno or Tahoe and then make our way up to Crater Lake and Portland. After the O'Brien family meeting this morning we decided to instead head north ...