Friday, October 4, 2019

La Grande, OR to Twin Falls, ID

It was a fairly long day.  There is a lot of construction on I84, frequently with one lane closed.  The little cars come roaring up the freeway and then jump in front of us at the very last minute.  One came really close to hitting the barriers just so he could get in front of the horrible RV.  Never mind the three 18 wheelers that were in front of him.  People!

The giant cement plant that signals the start of a long down grade with a lot of tight curves.  Danger!  Danger Will Robinson!


It's really dry out there.




This is the Snake River.  That's the one Evil Knievel tried to jump on his rocket powered device.  At this point in the river, someone has built a golf course along its banks.  People will build golf courses just about anywhere.


There is an excellent Sinclair Truck Plaza at exit 165.  Go there.

We are back at the Twin Falls 93 RV park which I have previously reviewed here.  We're staying two nights, because there are sights to see and stuff to look at.  However, it's currently 47 degrees and it's raining and windy.  Since I am still sick (sore throat, moderately productive cough, major sinus pain) we will not be doing any of those things that were had on the list.  I'm really hoping I'm improved enough for Valley of Fire in Las Vegas on Monday.

7 comments:

  1. Sure hope you start feeling better soon. Enuf with the illness. Get down here where its warm and dry.

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  2. It's a drag to be sick but it's really a drag to be sick while you are traveling. be gone you vile germs!

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  3. It is just effing hard to shake an entrenched but, and that's one damn shame. Las Vegas is enticing.

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  4. NO .... no sickness allowed!!! That country is different, but pretty.

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  5. Seems to me the only good thing about not feeling well while traveling is that you are, at least, in your own home rather than some anonymous hotel. Hope you feel better soonest!

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  6. I grew up and lived in that country, Haines, it's on old highway 30 between LaGrand and Baker. Those hot springs in your previous post were the site of a historic sanatorium, I can't remember what they were called. They believed the sulfur steam from the hot springs would cure all kinds of things. When I was a kid there was a rambled down old shell of a building there someplace. We used to drive that back road from Union to 30, or what Google calls the LaGrand-Baker highway. That road took off north of Baker and traveled through Medical Springs on to Union and LaGrand. Big deer hunting country in my youth, 50 odd years ago. And it's been about that long since I was last there. I can only wonder what it must look like today.
    Thanks for the pictures, they bring back fond memories. I don't remember shooting even one deer during all of those trips.

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  7. Hope you feel better soon! I remember that Evel Knievel stunt. Are those red flowers or red bushes in the third photo?

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