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Day 1 September 13, 2024 Boise Idaho to Swan Valley Idaho 318 miles

We started around 9 am but had to stop at Costco for gas. Then we realized that neither one of us had turned off the kitchen sink. Our kitchen sink is a tap on and off but occasionally it turns itself on. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn itself off. So we went back to turn it off. We left the second time about 10:15.

We took the freeway to Mountain Home and then turned onto the backroads. The drive to Mountain Home is still very uninteresting. We stopped in Fairfield for gas and decided to have lunch at the little drive in next door. They were quite busy but the food was good.

We continued through Craters of the Moon and on to Idaho Falls where we planned to stay the night. We tried booking online but everything came up no rooms. We called one of the chains and asked for Idaho Falls. They said yes they had a room. When the address came via text the hotel was in Blackfoot. We attempted to cancel the reservation since that would be back tracking. They wanted to charge 30% penalty fee. We argued that but they said it would need to be reviewed. So we decided to drive down the road and just stop at some hotel. That is when we found out this happens to be check in weekend for BYU Idaho so the town was booked full. Our choices were to go to Blackfoot or continue on to Swan Valley. We went to Swan Valley.

There are no accommodations between Idaho Falls and Swan Valley. We got to Swan Valley about 8:00 pm. The sun was down and the heater was turned on. Luckily we found a room. It was above a bar but a quiet bar. You would think that we were retired Navy. (Any port in a storm!);