Idaho Visit

Currently in Idaho ( Iona Idaho ) visit with friends for a spell. Using the time to cleanup, reorganize, and repair the RV. Today was a shopping days for supplies and food, then came back and cleaned out some items, and found other places to store items I do not often use. Think I will be doing some more purging of items in the future.

Having some high wind gust today and on one such gust a tree came down across the street. Made a nice loud crack, city was out in no time to clean it up...

Do doing something really exciting.....Laundry...


July,1 2011

  Today was spent running around for the first part of the day, went food shopping, lunch at the Firehouse Grill, and paid for a gazebo 10X10 ft to use when base camping for more then three nights. Also received my new solar kit to use when base camping.  Will take photos when I set it all up.

This evening we had a BBQ of chicken, corn, and salad ... Have a new dressing that I like and can eat..

Kay taken a picture of me taken a picture of me, or something like that.

FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spencer the supervisor 

Jerry our cook of the night..

July,2 2011

   Late start to go to Teton National Park, this time I was a passenger in the back seat of a car. We left the house at 4pm drove to the park, took some photos, stopped for a late dinner on the way home and back at the house at 11pm. Most of the scenes could not be photoed due to the lighting. Sun washed them out, or it was just to hazy looking. Did get one or two okay shots. 

Water fall and flooded river.

Kay doing her posing 

All of the lake photos are of Jenny lake.

Stage ride in middle of town. Notice how happy the driver and horses are.. 

Drive through Yellowstone Park

Today was better then yesterday, at least until the end.  Another long day, did not get into camp again until after 5pm.

  Okay so that is out of the way, for the most part it was a fun day. We drove through Yellowstone Park from the East side to the West. Took lots of photos along the way some came out nice, other made file 13. The ones I am showing are the ones I liked the best of the 36 I kept. Hope you all enjoy, forgive me for not writing more but I am once again exhausted and do not think well in this state.

One of many shots along the road

Yes that is snow along the road, June 26, 2011

Snow and ice at one of the small lakes we came across

Dead trees from the big fire so many years ago.

River running bank to bank, and in parts have overflowed.

One of the small hot springs in the park

Same hot spring

Mountains caped with snow in the background of the lake

Bison walking down the center of the road, holding up traffic

Three adults and two calfs, loved it..

This Big boy was walking along the side of the road as if he was the scout and lookout for the others.

Big boy again..

Long, Long, long day

On the road from 8:30am until 4PM...  Hate long days. Now feel like crap and just want to go to sleep, but it is too early for that. Anyway here are the photos from today..

Spencer's Ride Rolls Again... ;-)

June 23, 2011

Departed America’s Mailbox, Spencer’s Ride is now in the shop being worked on hopeful that it will be road ready tomorrow afternoon. Big thrill today was watching the men working on the RV park we are at, trying to get it so it does not turn into mud every time it rains. 

To help pass the time we checked out an RV store in town that had several things I wanted, a new latch for my door, shower head that turns off, and some small washers to have when needed. Also checked out the fairgrounds to see about the sites, ( no luck ) then went for dinner at a Asian buffet. By then it was time to call it a day so we parked in the parking lot of the shop that is fixing my unit. Fair is fair... I will be paying more then enough to earn a free night .. Both Kay and myself are feeling sick tonight, must have caught a bug.. . 

June 24, 2011

Was able to get Spencer’s Ride out of the shop at 11AM, took it to the flying J to use the scale, took paperwork into office to have my Registration changed to SD, back to the J for lunch and fuel, then we rolled down the road. Only went a short distance today due to how we are both not 100% today. Stopped at a National camp site in the black-hills for the night. Around 6PM we had a hail storm, only lasted 5 maybe 10 min then it was over but oh my was it loud. Poor Spencer was running back and forth in the rig scared out of his mind, I had to catch him and hold him on the bed to get him to stop shacking. 

Shot from my back window just as the storm started.

What the road next to my rig looked like.

Steam rising from the ground after the storm passed.

Kay's rig 

Early next morning, almost looked like fog.

Early next morning

Lake the next morning

This is Spencer, just in case someone did not know.

I wonder how the folks in the tents made out??? Well time to call it a night, will ad this and some photos when I get Internet connection.. Night for now..

June 25, 2011

    Headed to see Deadwood SD today then on to Wy. 

 Did not take long to get to Deadwood, but still it was not anything near what the advertisements had me believing. So what else is new.... Did get a few good photos, and a cheap breakfast for $3.99, coffee included. 

Good breakfast buffet for $3.99 (seniors ) $4.99 normal..

Street of old Deadwood

After touring Deadwood drove into Wy. and stopped for the night at a Walmart, needed to get a few supplies. Not sure what tomorrow will bring... want to be off the road before Friday, because of the 4th of July weekend...    

Eastern Wy, shortly after crossing into the state on I-90 from SD.

This railroad car was in the middle of a field.

Statue of I do not know who at exit 126 of the I-90W