Day 1 August 29, 2025 Boise to Idaho Falls Idaho 256 miles
We stopped at Costco it fill with gas before getting on the freeway. We decided that driving the freeway to the Orchard exit eliminated about 25 miles of gravel roads. We were glad to get off the freeway and all of the semi trucks. We did have a short detour just after the freeway.
We were surprised how many really nice homes were back there. We had it in our minds that we would go along until we got to highway 20. Well the GPS had a different idea. We turned on a road that soon turned to gravel. A very good gravel road however. Well at least the first few miles were. There were houses in the first few miles. We even saw a couple of birds of prey. Well the houses stopped and the road conditions got somewhat worse. Then we recognized a portion of the road we had driven as part of the Oregon Trail tour. The rest we were pretty sure we had never been on. The road was by this time only one lane wide. The only vehicle we saw caught up with us. We are guessing we drove about 40 miles on dirt roads. We need to figure out how to tell the GPS no Oregon Trail roads.
Eventually we got to the highway and from there it was smooth sailing through Fairfield, Craters of the Moon and Arco. We stopped for lunch at the rest stop near the intersection to go to Sun Valley. The restrooms were very clean.
We did have a few drops of rain but didn’t need to use the windshield wiper. May not rain during the trip because Rob got the windshield wiper fixed and reinstalled.
We ate Chinese tonight and managed to beat the crowd. Two large groups were just arriving as we left. Only one waitress and she was hustling. We have enough leftovers for another meal each.
The woodie ran very well today.
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