Heading to Idaho

Day 2 – 09/16/2018

Today we left Mitchell, Oregon and headed to Twin Falls, Idaho. We decided to take the route through Vale Oregon as I was curious as to what a town looks like in eastern “ugly” Oregon. Vale was actually a nice little town. I still have trouble understanding why anyone would live there on purpose though. As we endured the drive through the remaining land in Oregon, we decided to stop in Ontario, Oregon for one last gas fill-up where someone else does that glorified job for us. See in Oregon it is illegal to pump your own gas. They hire experts to do that for you so you can remain safely in your vehicle.

Shortly after we left Ontario, we decided to listen to music on my phone. We were entering Idaho, where even plants refuse to grow, and really wanted some nice music to go along with the beautiful scenery. Suddenly the stereo decided to go along with the scenery and just shut the volume down to level you could barely hear. We drove a few wonderful miles down the road and decided to do a factory reset on the stereo. This worked like a charm except now our phones were no longer paired with the stereo and it would not allow us to pair them while moving. It refuses to allow either the driver or passenger to be distracted. So a ways down the road we pulled off into a rest stop and paired our phones and allowed the dogs to do their business. Now we were good to go again.

After an eternity of driving across southern Idaho, we finally arrived at our hotel in Twin Falls. It was called Sure Stay (owned by Best Western) and was a pretty nice hotel.

After did my workout for the day, carrying in our bags (the only thing missing was the kitchen sink), we went to see the Perrine Bridge. It is a large bridge that crosses the Snake River Canyon. It’s fascinating.

While looking at, and taking pictures of, the bridge, we saw some base jumpers getting ready to jump from the bridge. I got the camera focused in on them and got some shots of them jumping from the bridge. It was really cool but they are insane.

 

 

While watching the base jumpers I started talking to a very nice man and he pointed out to me the ramp that Evel Knievel used when he tried to jump the Snake River Canyon. That was really cool.

The twins statue standing watch of the Snake River Canyon was absolutely beautiful.

Next we decided to go try to see the Perrine Coulee waterfall. We found the top of it but could not figure out how to get to the bottom. We figured it out later but by then it was getting late and we wanted to go see Shoshone Falls. So we scrapped the plans for this one.

We then navigated to the Shoshone Falls to see this mind blowing waterfall that everyone talks to highly about. It appears it has been a very dry year as there was almost no waterfall at all.

But it was quite interesting that there were some base jumpers jumping off the cliffs around it. Those cliffs are really high. Those guys are even more insane than the ones who jump off the bridge. I wasn’t ready for this so didn’t get any pictures of it. So instead I just grabbed a sunset picture of the canyon where they were jumping. Note the small island in the river. That is where they were landing.