Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 66 Monday, May 6, 2007

Hill AFB, Utah to Victor, Idaho –  252 Miles

We’ve got ourselves a convoy.  At the campground we met Emily and Andy Gleason from New Jersey – they are doing a three month trip as well and they are also on their way back to the East Coast.  They had debated going to Yellowstone or not since they had heard there had been some snow up there.  After talking with us they decided go ahead and join us to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone.  So, we got the CBs fired up and headed down to highway.  The scenery again was breathtaking with rolling hills, meadows with horses and in the background tall snow capped mountains.  We entered Idaho, the spuds state, with pleasing hills and fields prepared for the spring as far as the eye can see.  The scent of wet overturned soil was in the air.  We were definitely in Cowboy country.  We made it up some pretty steep hills to our campground which was surrounded by mountains.  Just what the doctor ordered.  A point worth mentioning – some of the roads have had quite steep inclines and as you can imagine this coach is slower than molasses in January negotiating these steep hills.  When ever possible we try to pull over to let the normal faster traffic go by…Idahoians were very appreciative of this jester of consideration; everyone of them honked their horns and waved as they passed by.  I, a cynical 95 driver, did not recognize their appreciative honks at first, rather thinking they were upset with us; however, Sylvia set me straight; it’s good to get a different perspective.

Every campground has different amenities.  This one provided WiFi, yeah!  however, we were so far in the mountains there was no TV reception – no problem!  We rely on our emergency radio for our weather forecast anyway.

Having Andy follow us was a good thing as he pointed out to us that our bikes hanging on the back of the RV were hanging too low on the ladder obscuring our right break light on the coach…not good. We took care of this right away moving the bikes up clearing the view of the break light.

posted by Richard @ 9:45 PM