Monday July 9. Our plans keep changing. This morning over an Aussi Bites and smoothie breakfast, we opened up the Idaho State Map, and decided to go the long way to Craters of the Moon National Monument. We headed Northwest a ways before taking an incredible road mirroring the Salmon River as it descended out a gorge. Rafters aplenty, the single lane stream of vehicles was easy going and calm, to let passengers an unending travelogue.
Craters of the Moon is impressive. It's a bunch of impressive examples of lava eruptions in the area. Because we'd been in other caves recently, we couldn't visit their caves, lest we inadvertently pass on a bat disease to their healthy population. So we skipped that part, but sampled the rest. We could have spent more time, but we needed to find a place to spend the night!
Sharon found a camp place on the internet. A search for campgrounds didn't yield anything she liked, but boondocking near me yielded our site. Alongside the Portneuf River, across from a UP rail line, this could work. The temperature was 90, but a wind soon came up and made it comfortable, even in Ernie once we opened him up. After dinner Sharon skinny dipped in the river above the waterfall. She slipped once on the slick mud, but managed to avoid getting caught in the quick current around her.
We didn't expect to even visit Idaho originally, but this is our second night here. And tomorrow we may skip Wyoming and end up in Colorado.
Idaho Pictures are at https://photos.app.goo.gl/xuUcHQ6QC223skGfA
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