We left Jackson this morning at 9:30 am and got to Twin Falls, Idaho about 2:30pm. We went a different way from the way that we came to Jackson. We went up through Wilson & Victor up a steep grade, then down the mountain back into the valley of Sun Valley. The clouds were amazing. When we woke up it had rained and there were lots of dark clouds. It looked like it was going to start raining again.
I got some great shots of the clouds with the landscape. There were tons of pretty wildflowers along the side of the road, purple, yellow, white, pink. Very pretty.
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It did rain on us when we stopped for a pit stop. We continued on and the further west we got, the bluer the skies. So the parks might have gotten some lightning and thunder today.
We passed through Idaho Falls and kept going until we got to Twin Falls. We skipped this city on the way from Boise the first time, so this was a new experience for us. The Perrine Bridge we've heard about, so we stopped after we crossed it, near the Visitor Center and there's this walkout area to look down to the Snake River Canyon. I was a bit scared walking out to the edge to look down. I took lots of pics on my good camera but here's a few that I can access now.
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This is also where Evel Knievel tried to jump the canyon in 1974.
http://evelknievel.com/866-2/
After here, we drove to Shoshone Falls just a few minutes away from the Visitor Center. This is like the Western version of Niagara Falls. Beautiful and you could feel the mist coming up all around you. At one point you could see a double rainbow in the falls.
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After here, we went to the local Twin Falls, but it was way smaller than Shoshone Falls. They are both hydroelectric power plants.
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After Twin Falls, we filled up with gas, cleaned our windshield and headed to Ontario, Oregon. So, 2 1/2 more hours from Twin Falls. Mom drove the first part and then I drove to Ontario, Oregon.
Mom wanted to continue driving to Burns, Oregon so it would be closer to drive tomorrow, but I had to put my foot down and tell her we should just stay in Ontario tonight and then we could get up early and drive to Burns and beyond to Redding, CA. (Last roadtrip Mom & I went on, we kept driving, I kept driving, and then it became dark, we were both tired and driving the windy roads of Humbolt county and ended up staying in what Mom likes to call, the Bates Motel.) Given that Burns only has 2 hotels, and Ontario has multiple, we are staying here.
See on the map below where Burns is from Ontario. It was almost 8pm when we pulled into Ontario, so we wouldn't have gotten there until after 10pm. So happy we are staying in Ontario.
Even though we have gotten hotel rooms every night (and not slept in our car!) we have saved money on food. By having an ice chest and the hotels we've stayed at have free breakfast, we usually have only gone out for a late lunch and then for dinner we just have snacks or leftovers and wine.
Lots of driving today, but we still had a good day seeing some new things that we wouldn't have seen. Some of the driving was backtracking from what we say before, but a lot of it was new.
Tomorrow we will be heading towards Redding, CA.
Goodnight everyone! See ya tomorrow.
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